Daniel Milliea has loved music for as long as he can remember.

The 15-year-old from Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick says he’s been surrounded by song since even before he was born.

“My mom loves music, my family is all really into music. My mom had a speaker when she was pregnant with me that she would put on her belly,” Milliea said in an interview Saturday.

“My mom told me she thinks I kicked her when I liked the music,” he said.

The teenager started playing the violin at just six years old, through a New Brunswick group that runs after-school music programs.

As an eight-year-old, Milliea picked up the viola for the first time.

“It sounded quite different. It has a lower, warmer tone to it,” he said of the instrument that’s bigger than a violin but smaller than a cello.

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