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Anne-Claire Niver

Anne-Claire Niver, known professionally as Anne-Claire, is an American singer-songwriter and recording artist. A North Carolina native, Niver studied opera at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro before starting her career. She is a former lead singer of the band Anne-Claire and the Wild Mystics, which disbanded in 2016. She has since performed as a solo artist.

Early life and education
Niver was born and raised in North Carolina. She spent the first part of her childhood in Greensboro, where she was active in the Greensboro Youth Chorus. After her family moved to Raleigh when she was ten years old, she began singing in the Capital City Girls Choir. She was a drama student at William G. Enloe GT/IB Center for the Humanities, Sciences, and the Arts, graduating in 2008. She obtained a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance and classical singing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's School of Music, Theatre, and Dance in 2013. While in college, Niver also worked in the music program at First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro. == Music career ==
Music career
Niver's style is influenced by her love of "soul divas" and she has cited PJ Harvey, Frank Ocean, k.d. lang, Björk, Lucius, and Neko Case as musical influences. She began her music career after her future producer and band member, Alex Bingham, encouraged her to share her work. She had recently moved back to the United States from Thailand and had been recording music with the software program GarageBand. Later that year she provided back-up vocals for an album by Porch Light Apothecary. Niver has also performed as a chanteuse at the O. Henry Hotel in Greensboro as part of their jazz series. The track Give it Up, which was later featured on her second album, was released as a single on July 20, 2018. The album was recorded in January and February 2018 at Fidelitorium Studioes in Kernersville with recording engineer Jeff Crawford and was produced by Bingham. Niver's second album, I Still Look For You, was released for digital download on July 31, 2018. The album, centered on loss and the stages of grief, was inspired by the loss of Niver's grandmother who died from a heart attack in 2016. A single on the album titled Second Time references a dream Niver later had about being visited by her grandmother, which she saw as a reflection of her own grief. In September 2019 Niver released the single Mosquitos, which she said she wrote while hiking in the DuPont State Forest after a bad breakup. The music video for Mosquitos, also released in September, was directed by Wilson Hester and filmed by Peyton Lea. == Discography ==
Discography
Albums Anne-Claire and the Wild Mystics (2015) • I Still Look For You (2018) Singles Second Time (2017) • Behind Me (2018) • Give it Up (2018) • Mosquitos (2019) • Jean Jacket (2021) • I Remember (2021) == Personal life ==
Personal life
Niver lives in Carrboro, North Carolina with her husband and former bandmate, Charles Cleaver. In 2020 she endorsed Bernie Sanders in his 2020 presidential campaign, and canvassed for him at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 2, 2020. == References ==
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