Caitlin was born on October 16th, 1986 in the small town of Colchester, CT. She claims to have done what every small town girl did; shopping, sleepovers, and getting good grades, but she was also preparing to be a talented vocalist. Since preschool, Caitlin was singing in front of a camera and performing for her family. She started playing guitar, writing songs, joined the choir and played the lead role in her highschool musicals.

Caitlin also started studying privately. She got a taste of performing at recitals and was in the studio as a teenager. When it was time to choose a focus in college there was no other option but to pursue music. She focused on singing and a career in music business and was voted president of her MIESA chapter and organized many events. Although Skittish-Voluptuous is her first real band, she has brought nothing but inspiration, creativity and talent to the group.

Gabriel Cruser has been making music in strange ways for over a decade. Although Gabriel was always first chair percussionist in middle school, he decided to drop out of band in highschool and continue music making independently. Learning to play guitar and bass, along with purchasing a drum machine and a fourtrack recorder (a fostex X-55) led to beat making and multitrack recording.

10 years later, Gabriel has a bachelors degree in Sound Recording, teaches Pro Tools and percussion, and has performed with many bands. In addition to Skittish-Voluptuous, he is the drummer for lowercase p who is very active in New England and traveled across the globe in 2007 to perform in Taiwan. He has also produced a ton of recordings, the best of them released through his record label Timetone Records.

Aside from the occasional 5-day backpacking trip and taking care of his family, Gabriel lives and breathes music. Skittish-Voluptuous is one of his bigger investments of time and emotion.

Brian Redmond grew up in a rural area just outside of Utica, NY. Until middle school, his exposure to music was mostly limited to hearing country music on the radio in the car and clarinet lessons at school. The discovery of the Midday Metal Mindgrind on the local college station and Yo! Mtv Raps in 5th grade got his musical appetite started, though, and began his lust for sound.

He spent his highschool years playing guitar and bass in a band formed with a few close friends. They started by learning every Nirvana song ever released anywhere and evolved into an original hardcore band. It was with this band that Brian had his first studio recording experience. Fortunately, it was so thoroughly disappointing that it led Brian to buy a cassette fourtrack to avoid ever going back to a studio again. He spent the first couple years after highschool playing, recording local bands, working temp jobs in mailrooms and on assembly lines to buy equipment and taking classes at community college where he changed majors three times (computer science, electronics technician, engineering, liberal arts).

The Sound Recording Technology program at UMass Lowell brought Brian to Massachusetts to study electric bass and recording. While listening to internet radio stations in the dorm, he stumbled on the experimental drum 'n bass sound of Amon Tobin, Spring Heel Jack, Boymerang, Photek, the reinvented Art of Noise, and others. These new sounds helped inspire the compositions that would make up his first solo album. "Low light, slow film and alcohol" was released under the pen name Vers in 2001 on the independent label Dysgenic Records, a label started with long time friends and musicians Lail Brown and Orin Neal.

Brian met Gabriel Cruser while working adjacent shifts in the music building's computer lab at UMass. A common friend tipped Gabriel off to the music that Brian had been working on and after hearing some of the in progress work, Gabriel asked to rhyme on one of the tracks. Not being able to picture it, Brian tried sparking a collaboration between Gabriel and a more hiphop oriented friend. Gabriel returned from an awkward and unsuccessful session and Brian decided to give the idea a shot. The verse came off in one take and the track appeared on the Vers remix disc "Amor Proximi".

Brian and Gabriel grew close as friends and collaborators over the next few years, though not in a truly shared, committed project. That changed in early 2006. Gabriel opened the door suggesting the two bang out some type of avant-garde instrumental disc. Seeing the opportunity to try out some of the ideas that came out of the MPC2000/4000 based performances and studio remix experience Brian had from Vers, he put the challenge out on the table and Skittish-Voluptuous was born.

Mike Murray hails from Connecticut. He has played the drums for over 10 years and studies music business. He also plays guitar and and is a great singer, although it's hard to get him to play and sing for you (he prefers behind closed doors). Basically, you want Mike Murray on your team.

As soon as Brandon Downs was born in October of 1982, he was immersed into the world of music. Both of his parents are singers and have performed in a number of musicals; even Brandon himself took to the stage a few times in his youth. After picking up the trumpet in the fourth grade, he soon gave the bass a try.

Brandon was all over the music program throughout high school; he played the upright bass in the North Shore Youth Symphony Orchestra for three solid years, the trumpet in concert band, and bass in the jazz band. In addition, he played in a number of different kinds of bands that ranged from ska, to punk rock, to jazz.

Growing up, Downs listened to a lot of relatively popular alternative music (Sublime, Nirvana, Deftones, Lagwagon, and Stone Temple Pilots), but he also took interest in past artists such as Bob Marley, Miles Davis, Shuggie Otis, Frank Sinatra, and Led Zeppelin. Yet the most notable influence for Brandon was Britain's "rock" band Radiohead, "[They] were a cool influential band because they kept hitting me at different ages."

During college he became more intrigued by jazz, finding himself drawn to everyone from Charles Parker to Thelonious Monk. He began playing in jazz-ensembles where he met drummer Gabriel Cruser and keyboardist Phil Reese. When he met Phil and Gabriel at the UML, everything just fell together like the pieces of a puzzle. Six years later, he is well known in the local music scene and has contributed to a number of recordings and performances.

Brandon now considers himself to be proficient in a number of areas musically and can easily call himself a composer, a singer/songwriter, and an engineer. Ultimately, Brandon just wants to play music and travel. "If I ever find myself with just my four strings, a van, and the drummer and keyboardist in my band driving from town to town, I have reached an ultimate goal."