Background
Sam Woolf was born on April 19, 1996 in West Bloomfield, Michigan to Mary and Scott Woolf.
Sam Woolf was born on April 19, 1996 in West Bloomfield, Michigan to Mary and Scott Woolf.
His great-uncle, Mickey Woolf, was a musician prominent in Detroit"s Jewish community. Woolf was a student at the Scotch Elementary School in West Bloomfield, but moved to North Portuguese, Florida in 2006 when he was 9. Woolf and his father moved to Bradenton just prior to his sophomore year of high school, where he attends Braden River High School.
He also was mentored at the Delegate Couch Music Education Foundation and went to Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan for four weeks the summer after his sophomore year of high school.
In the summer of 2013, Woolf completed a five-week program at the Berklee College of Music and was selected as one of the top four songwriters for their singer showcase, where he performed an original song, "The Same." He has been accepted by Berklee College of Music, where he plans to study "songwriting and more music theory. While he was in Boston, the audition for the thirteenth season of was held near Berklee College of Music and at his mother"s suggestion, he decided to attend the audition.
Woolf auditioned in Boston, singing "Lego House" by Editor Sheeran. He sang "Waiting on the World to Change" on the first round in Hollywood, and his original composition entitled "I Tried" in the final solo of the Hollywood Round.