The Grammy winner spoke to CNN about how her 2012 single impressed her new graphic novel of the identical identify.
“‘Woman On Hearth’ is such a particular track … I imply, who knew that this track would have this sort of power, that it might maintain and create,” Keys instructed CNN in an interview this week. “[The book] has been within the works for about 5 years. It felt like it might be so lovely to actually go deeper into the story of a woman on hearth named Lolo, who’s being raised in Brooklyn. She’s 17 years outdated. She has a single father who’s elevating herself and her brother and her brother ended up getting harassed by a police officer. Out of the anger and the will to guard her brother, she discovers that she has this energy that she by no means knew she had.”
The novel’s illustrations had been completed by Britney Williams and Keys’ co-writer is Andrew Wiener.
“You go on to find extra about her [Lolo], her household and the neighborhood and who she’s really battling,” Keys added in describing the challenge. “I believe the metaphor is that all of us have a superpower and what are we gonna do with it? You realize, how are we gonna uncover it?”
Keys stated she’s already considered probably growing the graphic novel into a movie or tv sequence.
“Some individuals are superb on the novel scenario and may type of have their creativeness run wild. Some individuals actually need to be immersed in a world that they will see the colour and so they can learn it on the web page,” Keys stated. “I believe that does lend itself very a lot to potential movies, potential sequence, all these items of this unimaginable lady Lolo that signify all of us.”