Born in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, Wolv was shaped by her upbringing in a religious cult. Her earliest years were defined by isolation, attending a private school of thirty children in the basement of a brick church hidden in the Pocono mountains. Sheltered from outside media, the only songs she had ever heard were church hymns. She was exposed to secular music for the first time upon entering the public school system, hearing ‘Dynamite’ by Taio Cruz on the bus ride to her first day.

Her fascination with explicit music and profane culture grew quickly. Raised by a pianist father and a mother with an angel voice, Wolv had been surrounded by music since she took her first breath. But she was taught that it was something sacred, bound to congregational pianos and old hymnals, sanctified and untouchable. What was once worship became her weapon, and for the first time, she started to use her gift for evil: creating pop music.

Wolv briefly attended The Pennsylvania State University before a near-death experience landed her hospitalized for 2 weeks and sent her running from her ordinary life. Dropping out of school at 19 and throwing herself thousands of miles from home into Los Angeles, she set out in search of something she described as ‘undefinable’. After 5 months living out of a solitary West Hollywood apartment, she disappeared from California as empty-handed as she arrived. Wolv’s current whereabouts are unknown.