Cree Summer just appealed to the male ego to get Lenny Kravitz to duet with her on the bluesy "Mean Sleep" off her debut solo album, Street Faerie. The singer-songwriter with the funky rasp and earthy poetry met Kravitz 11 years ago when she played Freddie Brooks on the hit television show A Different World and he was married to her co-star Lisa Bonet.
The 29-year-old Summer, who grew up in Toronto but has lived in Los Angeles the past decade, wrote the song just before she went to Nassau where Kravitz produced the album. She didn't have the audacity to assume he would sing it with her, so instead, she told him they should fly someone in to do it.
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