FOLLOWING in his parents' footsteps, ten-year-old Daniel Adams is already hitting all the right notes just like mum and dad.

Daniel, whose father Derek owns a Preston music shop, won three trophies for singing at the Blackburn Festival after coaching by mother Krystyna Adams, a piano and voice teacher.

He came first in the 11 and under boys' vocal solo, the 12 and under folk song section and the 12 and under light operatic section.

Krystyna, of Alexandra Road, Blackburn, said she used to play music and rhythm games with him even when he was a baby but she didn't start teaching him until two years ago.

She said: "He became an opera addict at the age of five after he fell for La Boheme. He's always been able to sing in tune and he was quite shocked when he went to school and found so many people couldn't."

Daniel, who attends St Gabriel's CE Primary School, has just become a Blackburn Cathedral chorister, and recently sang at St Paul's, London, with the choir.

But though mum Krystyna would like him to become a professional singer, she isn't sure it's for him.

She said: "It sounds like fun, jet setting around the world, but singers have to have a very disciplined life. It's got to be his decision."

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