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Cree Summer Francks (born July 7, 1969), best known as Cree Summer, is a Canadian actress, musician and voice actress.
She is perhaps best known for her role as college student Winifred "Freddie" Brooks on the NBC sitcom A Different World. As a voice actress Summer is best known for voicing Penny in Inspector Gadget during Season 1, Elmyra Duff in Tiny Toon Adventures, Susie Carmichael on Rugrats and All Grown Up, Princess Kida in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Valerie Gray in Danny Phantom, Foxxy Love in Drawn Together, Numbuh 5 in Codename: Kids Next Door, and Cleo the Poodle in Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Summer (born Los Angeles, California on July 7, 1969) grew up on the Red Pheasant Reserve in Saskatchewan. She is the daughter of Canadians Don Francks and Lili Red Eagle, a member of the Plains Cree First Nations. Her brother, Rainbow Sun Francks, is a former MuchMusic VJ.
Summer's career began in 1983 when she was cast as the voice of niece Penny on the original cartoon version of Inspector Gadget. Her unique, throaty voice was instantly recognizable to casting agents (as well as viewers even today), who began frequently casting her in animated programs. Many of these were part of cult franchises, like The Care Bears Movie (1985) and Ewoks (1985, part of the Star Wars franchise).
My blood came today, I am so heavy
Turning upside down don't make me young with wonder
And I don't believe
There's a man in the moon
All I see is the fullness of you
My blood came today
I am swollen and ripe
I don't want nobody
Telling me what's right
My blood came today
I don't care what you say
I'm gonna play I'll fly away
To where my love is laughing
I don't believe
There's a man in the moon
All I see is the fullness of you
I won't hang out in between your thoughts
Outrun your mouth try to thaw you out
I'm not sorry for the fire that's inside my heart
i'll be howling
In the dark