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Tom Araya
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Chilean-American musician
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Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz, professionally known as Tom Araya, is a male singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist. Born on June 6, 1961, in Viña del Mar, Chile, he holds citizenship in both Chile and the United States. Araya is a member of the band Slayer and has been active in the music industry since 1981. His musical work is primarily associated with the thrash metal genre.
Araya performs on the bass guitar and sings with a tenor voice type. He speaks English and Spanish. His professional activities include acting, and he is represented by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for copyright matters.
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Film & TV
Acting · Viña del Mar, Chile
Tomás “Tom” Enrique Araya Día is a Chilean-American musician. He is best known as the bassist and singer of the thrash metal band Slayer.
Known for
- Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow — Self2025
- Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story — Self2019
- Slayer: The Repentless Killogy — Himself2019
- Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine — Self (archive footage)2017
- Hairmetal Shotgun Zombie Massacre: The Movie — Self2016
- Gutterdämmerung — Burning Man2016
- Slayer: Repentless — Vocals, Bass2015
- Slayer: Repentless (Live At Wacken Open Air 2014) — Self - Vocals, Bass2015
- Slayer: [2014] Voodoo Music Festival — Vox, Bass2014
- Zombex — Walk-away Man2013
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Edinburgh
- Active from
- 1961
Member of
- Slayersince 1981
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,099
- Total plays
- 16,262
Tags
Tom Araya (born Tomás Enrique Araya June 6, 1961 in Valparaíso, Chile) is the vocalist and bassist of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Araya's family moved to the United States in 1966, and at the age of eight picked up the bass guitar, playing Beatles and Rolling Stones songs with his older brother, who played the guitar. Araya was employed as a respiratory therapist in the early 1980s, using his earnings to finance Slayer's debut album Show No Mercy. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/To
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,735x
- A Global Measure of Perceived Stress
· 1983 · cited 25,830x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,677x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,589x
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Key facts
- Born
- Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz , ( 1961-06-06 ) June 6, 1961 (age 64) , Viña del Mar , Chile
- Origin
- Los Angeles, California , U.S.
- Genres
- Thrash metal
- Occupation
- Musician
- Instruments
- Vocals bass guitar
- Years active
- 1981–2019 2024–present
- Member of
- Slayer
- Website
- slayer .net
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Enrique
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Viña del Mar
- Occupation
- bass guitarist
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- thrash metal
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- 2019 RiP Slayer - Tom Araya - by 2eight - ZSC4853 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Commons category
- Tom Araya
- member of
- Slayer
- date of birth
- 1961-06-06
- start of work period
- 1981-00-00
- birth name
- Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz
- name in native language
- Tom Araya
- second family name in Spanish name
- Díaz
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- pseudonym
- Tom Araya
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Encyclopedic overview
Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz ( Spanish: [tom aˈɾaʝa]; born June 6, 1961) is a Chilean-American musician, best known as the vocalist and bassist of the thrash metal band Slayer. He was ranked 58th by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. Araya, along with Kerry King, are the only members who stayed in the band since its inception.
Araya was employed as a respiratory therapist in the early 1980s and used his earnings to finance Slayer's debut album Show No Mercy (1983). Much of Araya's lyrical content is about serial killers, a subject he finds interesting; his first credited lyrical contribution was the vampire-themed track "At Dawn They Sleep" from 1985's Hell Awaits.
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