Tom Araya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tom Araya

American singer and bassist

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1961

Place of Birth: Viña del Mar, Valparaíso Region, Chile

Profession: singer, singer-songwriter, musician, songwriter

Nationality: United States, Chile

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: [tom a?a?a]; born June 6, 1961) is a Chilean-American musician, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist 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 credited lyrical contribution was the vampire-themed track "At Dawn They Sleep" from 1985's Hell Awaits.