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Azucena (given Name)
Azucena is a Spanish surname and a feminine given name meaning "Lilium candidum, madonna lily", a flower that is a symbol of Mary, mother of Jesus. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Azucena Arbeleche (born 1970), Uruguayan economist, professor and civil servant * Azucena Berrutti (born 1929), Uruguayan politician * Azucena Díaz (born 1982), Spanish runner * Azucena Galettini (born 1981), Argentine writer and translator * Azucena Grajo Uranza (1929–2012), Filipino novelist * Azucena Hernández (1960–2019), Spanish actress * Azucena Maizani (1902–1970), Argentine tango singer, composer and actress * Azucena Mora (born 1945), Ecuadorian actress * Azucena Sánchez Benito (born 1978), Spanish cyclist * Azucena Uresti (born 1978), Mexican journalist * Azucena Vera-Perez (1917–2014), Filipino film producer * Azucena Villaflor (1924–1977), Argentine social activist * Norma Azucena Rodríguez Zamora, Mexican politician Surname * Cesario Azucena (1938–2021), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilium Candidum
''Lilium candidum'', the Madonna lily or white lily, is a plant in the Lilium, true lily family. It is native to the Balkans and Middle East, and naturalized in other parts of Europe, including France, Italy, and Ukraine, and in North Africa, the Canary Islands, Mexico, and other regions. It has been cultivated since antiquity, for at least 3,000 years, and has great symbolic value since then for many cultures. It is susceptible to several virus diseases common to lilies, and especially to ''Botrytis (fungus), Botrytis'' fungus. One technique to avoid problems with viruses is to grow plants from seed instead of bulblets. Description It forms bulbs at ground level, and, unlike other lilies, grows a basal Rosette (botany), rosette of leaves during winter, which die the following summer. A leafy floral stem, which generally grows tall, but exceptionally tall, emerges in late spring and bears several sweetly and very fragrant flowers in summer. The flowers are pure white and tinted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azucena Maizani
Azucena Maizani (17 November 1902 – 15 January 1970) was an Argentine tango singer, composer and actress. She was discovered in 1920 by Francisco Canaro and quickly emerged as a major star. Her frequent appearances on stage and radio made her the female counterpart of Carlos Gardel although she did not enjoy as successful a film career as he did, appearing in a handful of films of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema including ''¡Tango!'' (1933) and '' Buenos Aires Sings'' (1947). During many years she gave performances dressed with men's suits or criollo cowboy attire for which she was known by the nickname "Funny-face Cowgirl", given to her by Libertad Lamarque in 1935. Early years Maizani was born in Buenos Aires on 17 November 1902. She lived in the Palermo neighborhood until she was five in which, because it seemed that she had health problems and her parents were very poor, she was taken by some family members to live on Martín García island. On that island located in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Azucena
Maya Azucena is an Americans, American singer-songwriter, recording artist and humanitarian from Brooklyn, New York City. She is a Ambassador, cultural ambassador, focusing on Women's empowerment, women's and youth empowerment as well as Domestic violence, domestic and Sexual Violence, sexual violence. Azucena has completed around twelve humanitarian tours sponsored by American Embassies and the U.S. State Department to countries such as China, Tanzania, Suriname, India, Sri Lanka, Haiti and Turkey. She has performed as a solo artist with her band in over forty countries. Musical career Solo work Azucena released her debut album "''Maya Who?!"'' Independent music, independently in 2003 and toured in America and Europe. CD Baby wrote the album, "Deep and soul-bearing" where she had sung like she had been everywhere and seen it all. This soul/R&B/hip hop album was a launching point for a young woman with a bright and long career ahead of her." The album featured guest artist N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Danganan-Azucena
Kira Christianne Danganan-Azucena is a Filipina diplomat. She is the Assistant Secretary for the United Nations and Other International Organizations at the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines. She had served as Chargé d'affaires, a.i. and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations in New York. On February 18, 2020, she was elected Chair of the Special Committee on the Charter of the UN and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization. United Nations Economic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gawvi
Gabriel Alberto Azucena (born September 23, 1988), who goes by the stage name GAWVI (formerly G-Styles), is an American Christian hip hop artist and music producer, formerly for Reach Records. Born in the Bronx, New York, he has released three extended plays, five albums, and twenty-three singles including his songs; "In the Water" and "Late Nights." His career commenced in 2008, doing production work for Lecrae and Trip Lee, who continue to be his most consistent collaborators. In early 2016, he was officially signed to Reach Records. In early 2022, Reach ended their professional relationship with Gawvi after a sexual misconduct scandal. Personal life Gawvi was born Gabriel Alberto Azucena, in The Bronx, New York, to a father from El Salvador and a mother from the Dominican Republic. He was raised in Miami, Florida. He was married to Brianna Azucena. In January 2022 Gawvi announced that he had separated with her in 2020. Shortly after this announcement, the visual and music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesario Azucena
Cesario Alvero Azucena Jr., popularly known as Ces Azucena or C.A. Azucena, (June 16, 1938 – November 27, 2021) is a prominent labor lawyer, professor, management consultant, and author in the Philippines. Education Azucena obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Ateneo Law School, a Master of Public Administration from the University of the Philippines, and has attended courses in the Master of Business Administration program of De La Salle Professional Schools. Human resource career Azucena was once an organizer and president of a labor union of teachers. He worked as a human resource manager in business firms and non-profit organizations for more than twenty years. He was accredited as a ''Fellow in Personnel Management'' by the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines, the umbrella organization of all human resource practitioners in the country. Law practice Azucena is currently Chairman of the Labor Law Department at Ateneo Law School. He is also a faculty m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Azucena Rodríguez Zamora
Norma Azucena Rodríguez Zamora is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution. She was elected to the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress as a federal deputy representing the state of Veracruz from the third electoral region. Political career Rodríguez Zamora served as a city councilor (''regidora'') of Tihuatlán between 2014 and 2017. In 2018, the PRD placed Rodríguez first on its party list from the third electoral region, all but guaranteeing her a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Kidnapping On 15 August 2018, it was reported that she was kidnapped at gunpoint. According to reports, Rodríguez was traveling on a highway in Hidalgo, when two gunmen shot at her car, injuring an assistant and driver, and causing the car to overturn. The gunmen then pulled Rodríguez out from her car and forced her into their vehicle. The next day the newspaper Milenio reported that she had been safely returned to relatives, unharmed except for an in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azucena Villaflor
Azucena Villaflor (7 April 1924 – 10 December 1977) was an Argentine activist and one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights organisation which looks for the victims of enforced disappearances during Argentina's Dirty War. Personal life Villaflor was born into a lower-class family to Florentino Villaflor, a 21-year-old wool factory worker, and his 15-year-old wife, Emma Nitz. Villaflor's paternal family had a history of involvement in militant Peronism. At the age of 16, Villaflor started working as a secretary for a home appliances company, where she met Pedro de Vincenti, a labour union delegate. She and de Vincenti married in 1949, and had four children together. They lived in Villa Dominico in Buenos Aires Province. Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo On 30 November 1976, eight months after the establishment of the National Reorganisation Process, Villaflor's son Néstor and his girlfriend Raquel Mangin were abducted. Villaflor attempted to sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azucena Vera-Perez
Azucena "Nene" Honrado Vera-Perez was a Filipino film producer who was part of Sampaguita Pictures. Early life Azucena "Nene" Vera was born on May 22, 1917, in Camalig, Albay to José O. Vera and Dolores Vera. Vera attended the University of Santo Tomas prior to the onset of World War II and pursued a degree in chemistry. Career Her father José O. Vera would entrust Sampaguita Pictures to her husband Jose Roxas Perez in the 1950s. She would help her husband manage the production studio. Under her husband's watch the studio produced 300 films. In 1980, Vera would take over as Sampaguita's president after the death of her mother. The studio helped produced actresses such as Gloria Romero, Susan Roces, Amalia Fuentes, and Gina Pareño. Death Vera-Perez died on May 14, 2014, at St. Luke's Medical Center in Quezon City due to pneumonia Pneumonia is an Inflammation, inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as Pulmonary alveo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azucena Uresti
Azucena Uresti is a Mexican news anchor and journalist. She works as a news anchor for Milenio Television and Radio Fórmula. She is regarded as a prominent television anchor in Mexico. Biography In August 2021, she received death threats in a video sent by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, a man who claimed to be the leader of the Mexican drug cartel. She and other various media news outlets were threatened by him for delivering news coverage about Mexican drug cartels. Despite the threats, she continued her work at Milenio TV and revealed that she would enter into the federal protection program after receiving threats. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican former politician, political scientist, public administrator and writer who served as the 65th president of Mexico from 2018 to 2024. He se ... defended her and condemned the threats levelled against her. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azucena Sánchez Benito
Azucena may refer to: * Azucena (name) (includes a list of people bearing that name) * ''Azucena'' (TV series), a Venezuelan telenovela * Azucena, Louisiana, a community in the United States * Azucena, a gypsy, character in Verdi's opera '' Il trovatore'' * ''Azucena'' or ''asocena'', a euphemism and a play-on-words for the illegal dog meat trade in the Philippines * ''Azucena'' (film), a 2000 Filipino drama film inspired by the illegal dog meat trade in the Philippines * ''Azucena'', a 2005 Romanian film directed by Mircea Mureșan See also * Açucena {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azucena Mora
Azucena Mora, the screen name of Livia Lidia Mora Mendoza (born 21 October 1945), is an Ecuadorian theater and television actress who achieved notoriety with her performance as Petita Pacheco in the TV series ' produced by Ecuavisa. She has been a public servant for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Culture. Biography Azucena Mora was born Livia Lidia Mora Mendoza in Milagro, Ecuador, but her mother and relatives called her Azucena. She established herself at school, where she sang and performed, but at age 12 moved away to Guayaquil Guayaquil (), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital (political), capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton. The city is .... Azucena studied for three years at the Theater School of the House of Culture in Guayaquil. At 32, she joined the theater group El Juglar. From 1990 to 1995, she starred in Ecuavisa's series ' with and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
