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.