Tom Araya
Heavy metal, Bassist
1961 –
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Who is Tom Araya?
Tomás Enrique "Tom" Araya Díaz is a Chilean musician, best known as the bassist and vocalist of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Araya is ranked fifty-eighth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.
Araya was employed as a respiratory therapist in the early 1980s and used his earnings to finance Slayer's debut album Show No Mercy. Much of Araya's lyrical content is about serial killers, a subject he finds interesting; his first lyrical contribution was the vampire-themed track "At Dawn They Sleep" from 1985's Hell Awaits.
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- Born
- Jun 6, 1961
Viña del Mar - Also known as
- Araya, Tom
- Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz
- Tomás Enrique "Tom" Araya Díaz
- Tomas Araya
- Slayer
- Tomás Enrique Araya
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Sandra Araya
(1995/09/06 - )
- Sandra Araya
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Chilean American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Chile
- Profession
- Lived in
- Valparaíso
- Viña del Mar
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on July 23, 2013
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