Mario Gabriel Adame, born in San Antonio, Texas, is the youngest
son of Rafael and Theresa Adame. Rafael served in the U.S. Army for
eleven years before receiving a medical discharge as a Staff
Sergeant. Rafael moved on to work as a teacher, coach, and a Texas
regional manager in sales and marketing. Theresa has been employed
in the psychiatry department at The University of Texas Health
Science Center at San Antonio for over twenty years, where she
currently holds a position as Senior Secretary.
After high school, while staying true to those ideas and
relationships that originated in San Antonio, Mario went on to find
extended passions and admirable friends from numerous Texas cities
and international backgrounds in Austin. Mario studied in the
Kinesiology and Education Department at The University of Texas at
Austin with a Bachelor of Science major towards Health Promotion.
His initial background is composed of nearly a thousand hours
serving as a childcare counselor for the YMCA, San Antonio Family
Endeavors, and Life Time Fitness. While at UT, Mario spent over
three years and sixth months in student housing, serving first as a
Community Assistant and then in his most recent position that
focuses on consulting and resident services for over sixteen
hundred bed spaces.
Mario is dedicated to health and public service. His hidden
passion is to develop specific school curriculum involving the
skills and lessons of poetry. Growing up in the Mexican-American
culture of San Antonio, Mario experienced first hand the history of
his grandfather, Anselmo Martinez, who is renowned as a singer,
songwriter, and performer in the Tejano Music Awards Hall of Fame
and most recently in 2013, Anselmo received a lifetime faith-based
award from the Governor of Texas. The legacy of his grandfather
carried on toward his uncle, John Martinez, a multi-Grammy nominee,
who helped Mario learn the business and art of music. Whether it
was military men on his father's side, musical talent on his
mother's side, or religious guidance coming from both sides of the
family, Mario learned the value of having stories and people to
depend on. Four women who he could always lean on were his two late
grandmothers, Sulema and Aurora, his aunt, Salesian Sister Betty
Ann, and his mother. Each provided Mario with the positivity of
prayer verses and song lyrics from the Catholic faith to turn to.
The pleasure of lyrics, beats, and dance continues to inspire
Mario, and he has decided to share this passion with the world in
his first book entitled "Ignite Your Soul, Release Your Mind Vol.
1." With poetry, Mario has found the courage to expose his
interpretations on his experiences from the last ten years. From
life in sport, music, religion, and military, to his attitudes
toward prosperity for family and children in a digital age, to the
many young stories of college lifestyles and intimate adult
relationships, Mario tries to capture each life changing moment in
an anthology of poems for his audience.