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Azteca was an American Latin rock/ jazz fusion group formed in 1972, started by percussionists Coke Escovedo and his brother Pete Escovedo, who had just finished stints with Latin rock pioneering band Santana. Azteca was the first large-scale attempt to combine multiple musical elements in the context of a Latin orchestra setting, and featured horns, woodwinds, multiple keyboards, three vocalists, guitars, drums, and multiple Latin percussionists.
Onstage, the band consisted of between 15 and 25 members, and toured with acts including Stevie Wonder. Other notable Azteca alumni included vocalists Wendy Haas and Errol Knowles, guitarist Neal Schon, trumpeter Tom Harrell, bassist Paul Jackson, drummers Lenny White & John H. Brinck Jr., and percussionist Victor Pantoja. The group was also a musical starting point for Latin percussionist Sheila E. (the daughter of Pete Escovedo), who appeared with the band as a teenager. Two albums were released on Columbia Records, the self-titled Azteca (1972) and Pyramid of the Moon (1973), before the band split up.
On September 15, 2007, a number of the surviving members of Azteca performed together for the first time in more than thirty years in Hollywood, California. The concert was recorded for an eventual DVD release.
Azteca or Aztecas may refer to:
Azteca (; originally known as Azteca América from July 28, 2001 until May 2014) is an American Spanish-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Azteca International Corporation subsidiary of Azteca S.A. de C.V.
Headquartered in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California, the network's programming is aimed at Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States and has access to programming from TV Azteca's three television national networks in Mexico, including a library with over 200,000 hours of original programming and news content from local bureaus in 32 Mexican states. Its programming consists of a mix of telenovelas, Liga MX matches, sports, news programming, and reality and variety series.
Azteca is available on cable and satellite television (primarily carried on dedicated Spanish language programming tiers, except in some markets with an over-the-air affiliate), with local stations in over 60 markets with large Hispanic and Latino populations (reaching 89% of the Hispanic population in the U.S. The network's flagship station KAZA-TV in Los Angeles is the highest-rated station in Azteca's portfolio.
President and CEO Manuel Abud has spearheaded the company since March 3, 2014.
Azteca is a strictly Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus is very diverse and contains around 84 extant species and two fossil species. They are essentially arboreal and many species have mutualistic associations with particular plant species, where the genus Cecropia presents the most conspicuous association.
Usage examples of "azteca".
Nueva Azteca, spent hours and days tracking those who had served him or seen him during his brief stay on the pyramid planet.
Why the end of the trail on Nueva Azteca, why the misnamed body lying in the morgue?
A walk down the corridor of Azteca Sal, a seat in the midst of confusion.
The ensuing war destroyed the wormhole through which all arrived, as well as technological civilization, and in the centuries since the Teotl have cultivated Azteca bloodlust and prowess.
If it is armed, it could well be just the superweapon needed to defeat the Azteca and the Teotl.
He had learned them when he was a child in the barrios outside Azteca Down.
When he learned where he belonged, it would be in the skyweb, an altogether better place than Azteca Down.
The father she claimed for him was a highsider newsman who had come to do a story on her and stayed in Azteca as her manager and lover.
Toiling toward that vision, she won a scholarship to the Kwan College of Space Medicine at Azteca Down.
Working as a temporary medic at the Azteca terminal hospital, she kept on waiting for her break.
The smoke of Azteca was a dirty brown plume, dwindling as they climbed.
Is this place I see, Mictlampa, from whence the Azteca say they came up from below?
I learned of the Azteca speech was the name of the very lovely and lovable little lady who eased my pain and brought me food as I recovered quickly from my head wounds in that dry, clean air.
I gave the command of a company and one proud day saw march in review before the gathered Azteca wives, families and Elders, ten centuries of martial youth, fully equipped.
The Azteca are very fond of this game, sometimes wagering everything they possess nipon the sport.