维尔威特·罗斯，Velvet Rose was born Heather N. King on June 13, 1980 in McKinney, Texas. She's of mixed Caucasian and African-American descent. Velvet excelled at foreign languages in grade school. In 1996 Rose won a scholarship to be a foreign exchange student in Germany and settled in Germany following graduation from McKinney High Scool in 1998.