# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-araya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:03:18.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-araya"
name: "Tom Araya"
slug: "tom-araya"
description: "Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz 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."
tagline: "Chilean-American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Araya_Slayer_M%C3%BCnchen_2016_(6_von_6).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1961-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.71
  momentum:             3.062180101117177
  historical:           24.243928
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/tomarayaofficial/"
    handle:    "tomarayaofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1322140/"
    handle:    "nm1322140"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "توم أرايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "টম আরায়া"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تام آرایا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Թոմ Արայա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Araya"
    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "トム・アラヤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ტომ არაია"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Araya"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312292"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/102984"
    title: "Tom Araya"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump