 Luis Montalbert-Smith was born on 22 May 1975 in Washington DC, to a Costa Rican surgeon and a physiologist who were studying at Georgetown University at the time.He lived his first years in Washington, D.C. and moved to his parents hometown in Costa Rica in 1979.His first artistic expression, her mom remarks, was dancing at the young age of one while listening to Anita Wards' hit "Ring my Bell."