{"id":661101,"date":"2026-08-28T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661101\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:44:20","slug":"marco-pierre-white-64-announces-debut-single-as-he-launches-dream-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661101\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Pierre White, 64, announces debut single as he launches \u2018dream\u2019 career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marco Pierre White<\/a> may be a dab hand in the kitchen, but can he cook up a storm in the studio? That\u2019s what the former TV chef is finding out as he follows one of his other dreams \u2013 to make music. <\/p>\n

White, 64, has released his first-ever single with father-son duo Chris and Reece Wilson, paying tribute to Scotland\u2019s national drink of whisky. <\/p>\n

The track, titled \u201cScottish Whisky\u201d, features White speaking the lyrics over an electric guitar riff, produced by the Stirlingshire-based Wilsons. <\/p>\n

When asked why he wanted to work on a single, White told The Times<\/a>: \u201cIf you have a dream, then you have a responsibility to yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t make your dream come true, then you\u2019re just a fantasist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chris Wilson told the publication that they thought White would be the perfect voice for the track given his love of food and drink, with the chef telling them after hearing it: \u201cIt\u2019s very sexy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are simply telling the story of drinking whisky,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe wanted to do it with Marco. He is the rock-and-roll chef, after all, the first TV chef. Thank God he liked the song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MarcoMarco Pierre White previously starred in \u2018Hell\u2019s Kitchen\u2019 (PA)<\/p>\n

Reading out the lyrics in the song rather than singing them, White says: \u201cRed sky this morning, I gave you your last warning\/ Blood moon going down, like Scottish whisky.\u201d <\/p>\n

White rose to fame after becoming one of the youngest British chefs at age 33 to earn three Michelin stars in 1995, having trained under the tutelage of Albert and Michel Roux at the highly esteemed Le Gavroche. He ran The Restaurant Marco Pierre White in London, as well as Le M\u00e9ridien Piccadilly Hotel and Harveys before quitting daily kitchen work altogether in 1999. <\/p>\n

He later became a TV chef, starring in ITV\u2019s Hell\u2019s Kitchen, hosted the American version of cooking show The Chopping Block and appeared on BBC\u2019s MasterChef. He went on to compete on Celebrity Big Brother in 2011 and more recently, partnered with the BBC to create a digital cooking course for its platform BBC Maestro. <\/p>\n

\"WhiteWhite recently said that \u2018MasterChef\u2019 wasn\u2019t \u2018real\u2019 (PA)<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, White hit out at MasterChef<\/a>, declaring that it is \u201cnot real\u201d and instead, a reality show. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to the tasting the food is three, four hours old. It’s cold food,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a TV show, don’t take it seriously. It is not real. It is fantasy. If it makes you want to cook then that is all that matters. It\u2019s food porn.\u201d<\/p>\n

White isn\u2019t the only star to recently pursue music; Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins released his first-ever album of classical music<\/a> this month at the age of 88, stating: \u201cMusic was my first desire.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[86666,44618,182917,434,27125,279330,18,4507,117,3304,33137,19,17,194882,89990,279332,27134,237,432,223536,279329,57941,176068,279331,86068,1294,22026],"class_list":["post-661101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-arrival","tag-arts-culture-and-entertainment","tag-attending","tag-celebrities","tag-color-image","tag-day-1","tag-eire","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-film-industry","tag-film-premiere","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-london-england","tag-looking-at-camera","tag-marco-pierre-white","tag-one-person","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-premiere-event","tag-q-and-a","tag-red-carpet-event","tag-south-by-southwest","tag-south-by-southwest-london","tag-three-quarter-length","tag-uk","tag-vertical"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117173675070516490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}