Keone Madrid was born on June 30, 1988, in San Diego, California. He is an American-Filipino dancer and choreographer. The 29-year-old was interested in dance from the age of 15 and pursued the art form ever since. He was a part of the groups Future Shock San Diego, Formality, and Culture Shock San Diego. The crew Choreo Cookies had him as a director and choreographer. Madrid is also well known for choreographing dances for Jasmine Villegas and Kim Hyun-Joong. Mariel Martin, a.k.a Mari, was born on November 3, 1985, in San Diego, California as well. Just like her husband, she was into dancing from her childhood and began to pursue it when she was 13 years old. When she turned 17, she moved to San Francisco to join Funkanometry SF, a dance company. When she was 23 years old, destiny brought her to dance for Choreo Cookies, where Keone was a director. The couple got married after dating for one month and Mari wrote in an intimate article that “From the beginning, Keone and I always knew we wanted to marry each other. It was after a month of being together, sitting on the floor in my Oakland apartment where we confessed to a shared dream of marriage and having a family.”