| Mitch - Tenor, Musical Director, Senior
Mitch (aka: Mitchell, Mitchaloid, Mitchelson, Mitch Mitchell, etc.) hails from the Bay Area. He is equipped with a mind for Astrophysics, a head of curly brown hair, and a tenor voice that landed him in the awesomest a cappella group the world has ever seen. Apart from being well on his way to achieving his dream of becoming a famous musician, Mitch also excels at Laser Tag and mini golf, and is a force to be reckoned with on a chess board. In his free time, you might find him rescuing Princess Zelda, scouring the DC wasteland, fighting off Combine soldiers, or chilling in downtown Rapture. |
| Caitlin - Alto, Asst. Musical Director, Senior
If you hear a clashilicious suspension chord in an Acquire song, Caitlin probably (a) helped arrange the piece, (b) blackmailed the arranger into adding the chord, or (c) sang it as loudly as she could against the arranger’s wishes, because she’s a rebel like that. Caitlin, who has been singing in choirs since age nine, is the group’s resident pitchpipe, cheerleader, and annoyingly insistent optimist. Now a fourth-year Literature major at UCSC, Caitlin spends her time in the Cowell apartment she shares with fellow Acquirians Katie, Dipsy, and Julie; reading, writing, and pretending to songwrite; and driving Acquire’s members beyond insane by hugging and talking to them at incredibly inopportune times. Caitlin adores Oreos, chocolate ice cream, and chocolate syrup all at the same time, writing young-adult novels, any and all music by Owl City and Sam Tsui, roller blading, and skipping gleefully through the woods holding peoples’ hands. If she ever decides to grow up, she’d like to be a high school English teacher, a therapist for teens, or Santa Claus, so she can nom-nom-nom all the cookies and chug all the milk people leave out while spreading happiness and good times everywhere she goes. |
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Cody - Bass, Asst. Musical Director, Senior
Cody is a veteran of marching band and various concert functions. He loves to play anything jazz, and excels at upright and electric bass. If he isn’t relaxing or playing bass, he’s generally nerding it up with his friends at UCSC, or snoozing lightly in the shade. Someday, he hopes to be listed with the likes of Stanley Clarke and other fusion jazz greats. |
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Danny - Vocal Percussion, Business Director, Senior
Danny hails from Hollister (the town, not the store) and, thanks to Acquire, can truthfully say that he once killed a man by ripping out his heart onstage. He possesses arguably the widest range of facial expressions known to mankind. |
| Dipika - Mezzo, Business Director, Sophomore
Dipika aka Dipsydoodle, Dipsycup, Dipikachu, Dip n Dots, and Paprika is cursed with the ability to retain the lyrics to every pop song ever made. She enjoys playing the piano, smanging, and adding trills to songs. She would like to thank Acquire for instilling in her an irrational fear of sharks in the bathtub. After joining Acquire, Dipika has noticed that her life has become so much more Acquward, but she wouldn’t have it any other way, in her wildest teenage dreams. |
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Brendan - Tenor, Freshman
Brendan Lee was born a dog. After undergoing and recovering from several complex medical operations, Brendan is now a full grown male adult human being. To this day, he still calls to his former canine
name, Lil’ B. He has exceeded society’s expectations by overcoming many challenges such as learning how to walk on two feet and speak human. Alas, he has found his home in Acquire during his first year at
UCSC. Although human now, he still thoroughly enjoys belly rubs, treats for rewards, and chewing on shoes; but most of all, he enjoys music and singing. |
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Caroline - Alto, Senior
Born and raised aboard the pirate ship Greybeard’s Revenge, Caroline has always enjoyed singing in a group (mostly drunken sea shanties), but has never had professional experience before joining Acquire, although she cannot imagine a better place to start. She has a natural love for music and has been playing the violin for over ten years, and has dabbled with the piano and bass guitar. She is a student at UC Santa Cruz, double majoring in Philosophy and Theater Arts, with a dual emphasis in performance and scenic design. Caroline is secretly a leprechaun, and in her spare time, enjoys writing riddles for children which they must solve in exchange for their socks that she stole to make hand puppets for her own amusement. If you ask her about this habit, she will deny it, but don’t believe her. Caroline also enjoys knitting, dancing, carpentry, and cooking. |
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Erick - Tenor, Sophomore
Erick loves singing! He has sung in choir for six years. His experience with high school choir took him to Washington D.C., Hawaii, New York, and Chicago. Erick is from the city of El Monte in southern California. He wants to major in music so that he can beomce a choir teacher. He once sang the national anthem for a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, which was super awesome. He quite literally believes that life is a musical. |
| Hayley - Soprano, Junior
Hayley is in her second year at UCSC. She received an opera scholarship for UCSC and, upon arrival, auditioned for and was accepted into the Opera Department. She was in UCSC’s 2010 opera, L’elisir d’amour, and also participated in UCSC’s Concert Choir. Hayley enjoys cooking and deep-cleaning. Her most embarrassing memory is when her wedding dress zipper broke on stage during a musical in high school. |
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Jefferson - Bass, Senior
Jefferson played piano and sang karaoke with his parents when he was little, but has never realized his passion for music until joining Acquire. Now, he’s teaching himself piano and guitar, and plans to major in music in hopes of having some sort of musical career in the future. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, playing video games, and riding his bicycle. |
| Julie - Soprano, Sophomore
Julie frost was just a lonely inanimate pile of snow. Until one day someone came and gave her a hat and a carrot nose making her into a human teenager. She was created with a love of singing and frosty blue eyes to match her name and to remind her of where she came from. She is now living with awesomely crazy singing girls, but there are those hot nights where she sleeps in Caitlin’s mini fridge, in fears of regressing back to that pile of snow. She is new to Acquire A Cappella this year and looks forward to those triweekly times where she gets to be with the awkward people she loves most.
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Katie - Soprano, Junior
Katie was born deep in the heart of the jungles of South America. She was kidnapped at the age of three by poachers, who mistook her for the rare and endangered Peruvian Singing Armadillo, and brought to America on a tugboat. After arriving in New York City, her kidnappers lost her while on their day off at the zoo, and Katie just sort of wandered around until she made her way to Santa Cruz, where she was adopted by an acappella group earlier this year. Now she sings for us. |
| Leah - Alto, Junior
Bio coming soon
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| Matt - Barritone, Senior
Bio coming soon
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Michel - Vocal Percussionist, Freshman
“Mike G” or ‘Mich” as they call him came to rescue UC Santa Cruz A Capella that was in dire need of a beat maker. As a new freshmen member of Acquire A Capella, he hopes to gain better creativity, balance, an ear through the year commitment. He is a self-taught “vocal percussionist” (in other words beatboxer) from Sacramento, California that began his Sophomore year of high school. Through Youtube videos of beatboxer Lippicool from the UK, he became passionate for the art of beatbox and quickly was able to pick up its rhythm and produce fundamental sounds. With practice and time, Michel expanded his repertoire with new sounds that gained him followers. He grew to love beatboxing and began teaching others by forming a “Beatbox Club” as well as performing in local Open Mics and school rallies. Michel also desires to learn how to sing though he has had no previous experience in doing so. |
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Neda - Mezzo, Freshman
Neda is a freshman at UCSC who was born and raised in Sweden. She moved to America in 2006 and since her parents are from Iran, she speaks Swedish, Farsi, and English fluently, and a little bit of Spanish. She was has been in choir since 1st grade and loves singing but has never loved a choir as much as acquire. She also loves to have fun, travel, and to eat delicious food. |
| Robert - Bass, Sophomore
Rob Pistone was just an average college student until one day he met a genie and they participated in a song and dance number, forever changing his life. Rob enjoys singing Disney songs to deer while walking around campus, and scaring Caitlin with his creepy deep voices. He was reunited with his long lost triplet brothers from another mother, Mitch and Jefferson, when he made it into Acquire this fall. Rob would like to thank his best friend, a rubber chicken by the name of Richard, for all the love and support he has given him over the years. |
| Shira - Mezzo, Freshman
Shira Hillinger was born singing, and has been doing so ever since. She has been involved in choirs all through elementary, middle, and high school, as well as SCCC and her temple choir. She has performed in multiple competitions with her show choir in high school, and in the three years she was involved with it, it won three national championships. She was chosen “Outstanding 2nd Soprano” by her director, and she jumped at the chance to become a part of Acquire a capella group at UCSC. Something she is very proud of is being able to perform a number in Hairspray at the Hollywood Bowl, and she would like to thank her family for everything they do for her. Shira is proud of her three SCUBA certifications, and a random fact is that she has 2 dogs who can literally pass off as stuffed animals if they don’t move. <3
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