Ray Toro

Guitarist Raymond Toro-Ortiz -- known to My Chemical Romance fans as Ray Toro -- was born on July 15, 1977, in Kearny, NJ, and attended the same high school in Belleville as his future bandmates Gerard and Mikey Way. Sharing a bedroom with his two brothers, Toro was inspired to pick up the guitar after watching one of his older brothers play along to classic rock artists like Led Zeppelin. Because his neighborhood was not a safe place (dead bodies and drug addicts were constants of the area), his mother preferred him not going outside alone, so Toro instead passed his high sch...