Musician Alicia Keys Launches Storytelling App for Kids

Alicia Keys, after giving birth to her son 2 yrs ago, said she desired to create tools for kids. Now she's launching an app for children.

"The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee" is all about a young New York City girl's relationship together with her wise grandmother. Keys produced music for that interactive app, which will be released Thursday for $3.99.

"It's a brand new adventure for me, and i am really enjoying it," the Grammy Award winner said within an interview Wednesday.

The app is loosely according to Alicia Keys' relationship with her grandmother. It's centered in LeeLee's bedroom, also it allows users to see books, play music and write inside a journal.

"It does remind me of my world," the brand new York-born singer said. "The piano, the journal, music's this type of big part of my entire life, the city, all of that."

Keys is launching the app through her company AK Worldwide and Bento Box Interactive. She said raising her 2-year-old son, Egypt, was area of the app's inspiration.

"I was just getting brought to kind of the TV shows and also the DVDs and all the stuff you start kind of introducing your children to, and I thought how cool it might be to be a part of something which really allows them to hear music from different places, different cultures, different sounds," she said. "That's what we will do with this."

Keys is really a 14-time Grammy winner. Her fifth album, "Girl Burning," is out Nov. 27. Maxwell, Jamie xx, Bruno Mars and John Legend are some of the featured acts and songwriters.