WATCH: Montreal toddler hears music for the first time

Watch: Montreal toddler hears music for the first time

MONTREAL — Three-year-old Montrealer Auguste Majkowski heard music for the first time over the weekend after experimental brain surgery helped him to hear.

READ MORE: L.A. treatment gives Montreal boy chance to hear

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Although his mother, Sophie Gareau, told Global News that she hoped the first song her son would hear would be Somewhere Over the Rainbow, it wasn’t to be.

Gareau shared a video on her Facebook page of the moment her son heard the song Ma Baker by Boney M.

“Incredible moment this weekend: Auguste heard music for the first time, thanks to his brand new ABI (1 and a half months post activation)!!!,” she wrote.

“Who would’ve thought it would be Ma Baker by Boney M! I won’t complain, this is simply amazing!!!”