Frolova was born into poverty, her Father played double bass in the under-loved and under-acheiving Russian skiffle group The Lousy Lenins who mostly played in underground skiffle clubs in Moscow following the outlaw of all music 15 years earlier under the rule of Emperor Ivan. Frolova's mother was a former gypsy who had run away to join the circus, before realising all people in circuses are gypsies and going back to being a real gypsy.