1961 - Today
Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz (Spanish pronunciation: [tom aɾaʝa]; born June 6, 1961) is a Chilean-American musician, best known as the vocalist and bassist of 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Araya has received more than 1,577,899 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Tom Araya is the 646th most popular musician (down from 530th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Chile (down from 37th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Chilean Musician.
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Among musicians, Tom Araya ranks 646 out of 2,675. Before him are Armando Manzanero, Scott Bradley, Andy Fletcher, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Kenny Loggins, and Jorge Bolet. After him are K. K. Downing, Bix Beiderbecke, Sam Phillips, Giovanni Sgambati, Nelson Freire, and Jörg Demus.
1935 - 2020
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 640
1891 - 1977
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 641
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 642
1812 - 1865
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 643
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 644
1914 - 1990
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 645
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 646
1951 - Present
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 647
1903 - 1931
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 648
1923 - 2003
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 649
1841 - 1914
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 650
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 651
1928 - 2019
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 652
Among people born in 1961, Tom Araya ranks 80. Before him are Moana Pozzi, Chad Smith, David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, Bonnie Hunt, Andy Fletcher, and Sergei Aleinikov. After him are Ralph Macchio, Jacky Cheung, Bernard Werber, Guido Westerwelle, Frans Timmermans, and Melissa Etheridge.
1961 - 1994
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 74
1961 - Present
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 75
1961 - Present
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 76
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 77
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 78
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 79
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 80
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 81
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 82
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 83
1961 - 2016
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 84
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 85
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 86
Among people born in Chile, Tom Araya ranks 42 out of 225. Before him are Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Patricio Guzmán (1941), Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1877), Juan Ignacio Molina (1740), Pedro Pascal (1975), and Arturo Alessandri (1868). After him are José Manuel Balmaceda (1840), René Schneider (1913), Vicar (1934), Alexis Sánchez (1988), Vicente Huidobro (1893), and Marcelo Salas (1974).
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 36
1941 - Present
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 37
1877 - 1960
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 38
1740 - 1829
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 39
1975 - Present
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 40
1868 - 1950
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 41
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 42
1840 - 1891
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 43
1913 - 1970
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 44
1934 - 2012
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 45
1988 - Present
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 46
1893 - 1948
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 47
1974 - Present
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 48
Among musicians born in Chile, Tom Araya ranks 3. Before him are Claudio Arrau (1903) and Violeta Parra (1917).
1903 - 1991
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 1
1917 - 1967
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 2
1961 - Present
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 3