Background
Azula was born in Miami, Florida, the son of parents who are natives of Colombia. He grew up in Westlake Village, California, and relocated to Florida while he was in high school.
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After attending a local community college and working for a paste-up artist in Orlando, Azula attended Kennesaw State University, graduating in 1990.
Career
Foreign the fictional character see Azula
The ads were directed by Errol Morris. Afterward, he spent two years studying advertising at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta. Azula began his career at Leoffler Ketchum Mountjoy.
He later worked at Fallon McElligott in Minnesota where he developed the Buddy Lee campaign for Lee Jeans.
He also worked at Goodby Silverstein and Partners and McCann Erickson in San Francisco, creating advertising campaigns for Microsoft. His accounts have also included Bayerische Motoren Werke, Budweiser, East-Trade, and Master of Science in Nursing. He also did work for American Telephone & Telegraph Company Wireless.
As the ad agency"s creative director, Azula created a demo tape for the that he sent to Morris. Then, Morris cast professional actors in the same role but told Azula that he liked Azula in that role.
Ultimately, focus groups hired by the ad agency said they preferred Azula in that role over any of the professional actors.
On the December 5, 2009 episode of Saturday Night Live, a pair of United Parcel Service commercial parodies aired with Bill Hader portraying Azula.
