Anne-Claire Niver

Niver lives in Carrboro, North Carolina and is in a relationship with her 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.

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.

In August 2018 Niver opened for Lilly Hiatt at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham. Later that year she provided back-up vocals for an album by Porch Light Apothecary.

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 formal release was celebrated with a release party and performance on August 3, 2018 at the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro. 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. The day before she was scheduled to record the song, her grandfather died.

Niver fronted the band Anne-Claire and the Wild Mystics, composed of Charles Cleaver on keyboard, David Dollar and Ryan Johnson on guitar, Bingham on bass, and Dan Faust on drums. Her first album, named Anne-Claire Niver and the Wild Mystics after the band, was released in 2015. She partnered with Kris Hilbert at Legitimate Business in Greensboro to produce the album.

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. She studied under Carla LeFevre and received additional training from Meredith Monk. Niver twice attended the Brevard Music Center's summer program, where she sang the roles of Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites and Jenny Diver in Threepenny Opera.

Anne-Claire Niver (born May 5, 1990), 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.