Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wendy Haas began her musical career in her mid-teens, playing bass, keyboards and singing.
[2][1] She worked with a number of local groups, eventually meeting original Santana drummer Michael Shrieve.
Shrieve also recommended Haas for the Latin Fusion band Azteca, which released two records on Columbia in the early 1970s and toured in North America with Stevie Wonder.
Haas also performed and/or recorded with other artists including Alice Cooper, Boz Scaggs, Melissa Manchester, Kenny Rankin, Kiki Dee, and Spencer Davis.
[5] Haas participated in the Azteca reunion concert in Los Angeles in 2007,[6] which was recorded and released on CD as From the Ruins (2008) and DVD as La piedra del sol (2008).