{"id":849847,"date":"2026-08-10T04:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849847\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:08:17","slug":"hollywood-icon-morgan-freeman-makes-major-career-pivot-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849847\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood icon Morgan Freeman makes major career pivot at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"

He has one of the most distinctive voices in film, and now Morgan Freeman<\/a> is taking it to a new type of project as well: his first album.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood legend has launched an unexpected career pivot<\/a>, releasing a music project<\/a> at 89.<\/p>\n

\"Morgan<\/p>\n

Morgan Freeman has announced a surprise new career move, dipping his toe into music at 89. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Freeman has narrated and produced his first album,\u00a0Morgan Freeman\u2019s Symphonic Blues Experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 12-track record follows 100 years of blues music, featuring covers by other blues musicians and a three-date tour<\/a> in support.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard the blues for the first time on my grandmother\u2019s porch in the Mississippi Delta, and it has never left me,\u201d\u00a0Freeman told Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His connection to the genre goes beyond the album, with Freeman co-founding Ground Zero Blues Club in Mississippi 25 years ago.<\/p>\n

It is Freeman\u2019s first own music project, but he has contributed to other songs in the past \u2013 including spoken word and narration throughout 21 Savage & Metro Boomin\u2019s 2020 album Savage Mode II.<\/p>\n

He also hasn\u2019t given up his day job.<\/p>\n

Freeman currently stars as the US secretary of state in Taylor Sheridan<\/a> series Lioness, alongside Nicole Kidman<\/a> and Zoe Salda\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His most recent movie was 2025\u2019s Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t, the third film in the Now You See Me franchise.<\/p>\n

\"Morgan<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not walking away from acting though, and has recently returned to screens in Lioness. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Freeman has been working for more than six decades but has no plans to retire.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the idea of retirement would float past me but, as soon as my agent says there\u2019s a job or somebody wants you, or they\u2019ve made an offer, the whole thing just boils back into where it was yesterday: how much you\u2019re going to pay, where we\u2019re gonna be?\u201d he told The Guardian<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe appetite is still there. I will concede that it\u2019s dimmed a little. But not enough to make a serious difference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has one of the most distinctive voices in film, and now Morgan Freeman is taking it to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-849847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}