Alicia Key's looking to heat up her career even more as she prepares for the release of her coming album "Girl on Fire," and also launches a new storytelling app called "The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee."
"The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee" is about a young New York City girl's relationship with her wise grandmother. Keys produced music for the interactive app, which will be released Thursday for $3.99.
"It's a new adventure for me, and I'm really enjoying it," the Grammy Award winner said in an interview Wednesday with the WSJ.
Available today for $3.99, Keys produced the music for the app, which is set in LeeLee's bedroom and allows users to read books, play music and write in a journal. The app was released by her own company, AK Worldwide, and Bento Box Interactive.
"It's a new adventure for me, and I'm really enjoying it," Keys said, adding that raising her two-year-old son, Egypt, helped inspire the app.
"I was just getting introduced to kind of the TV shows and the DVDs and all the things you start kind of introducing your kids to, and I thought how cool it would be to be a part of something that really allows them to hear music from different places, different cultures, different sounds," she added. "That's what we're able to do with this."
Keys is a 14-time Grammy winner. Her fifth album, "Girl On Fire," is out Nov. 27. Maxwell, Jamie xx, Bruno Mars and John Legend are among the featured acts and songwriters.
