Cree musicians

Crystle Lea Lightning (born February 5, 1981) is a Canadian-American film actress, musician, DJ, and hip-hop MC. A dedicated electro house DJ, Crystle recently moved from the booth to the center-stage mic with her performance partner, MC RedCloud. The pair wrote and recorded a collaborative work LightningCloud (2012) with RedCloud's long-term musical collaborator, DJ Hydroe.

Andrew Balfour is a Cree composer and conductor from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the Artistic Director of the vocal ensemble Dead of Winter.

Tracey Lindberg is a writer, scholar, lawyer and Indigenous Rights activist from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation in British Columbia. She is Cree-Métis and a member of the As'in'i'wa'chi Ni'yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree.

Gentle Thunder, born Lisa Carpenter, is a Native American flautist of Cree heritage with three solo albums to date. From Kirkland, Washington, Gentle Thunder also plays the hammered dulcimer and percussion instruments. In 2006 she released Beyond Words with Will Clipman and Amochip Dabney, two regular musicians who back R. Carlos Nakai. The album was a 2006 Grammy nominee for Best New Age Album. She has collaborated with singer-songwriter Mariee Sioux.

Cris Derksen is a two-spirit Juno Award–nominated Cree cellist from Northern Alberta, Canada. Derksen is known for her unique musical sound which blends classical music with traditional Indigenous music. Her music is often described as "electronic cello" or classical traditional fusion.

Veronica Johnny is a Canadian First Nations (Cree-Métis) musician, entrepreneur and educator, from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, in Treaty 8 Territory. She divides her time between Toronto and Northern Ontario, Canada. She is two-spirit.

Massey Whiteknife is a Canadian producer, businessman, and entertainer. He is the CEO of the ICEIS Group of Companies, an occupational safety and health and sustainable development consulting firm in the Athabasca oil sands region of Alberta, and is also a pop singer, performing as ICEIS Rain.