"Tom\u00E1s Enrique \"Tom\" Araya D\u00EDaz (born June 6, 1961) is a Chilean-American 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."@en . "1961-06-06Z"^^ . "1961-11-06Z"^^ . . . "Bassist and Vocalist inSlayer" . . . . . . "Tom Araya"@en . . "Araya, Tom"@en . . . . . "1961Z"^^ . "Tom\u00E1s Enrique Araya D\u00EDaz"@en . . . "Tom\u00E1s Enrique Araya"@en . . . "Tom Araya"@en . . . . "solo_singer" . "1981Z"^^ . .