TSIIGEHTCHIC/ARCTIC RED RIVER - The source of Dayle Cole's talent is mysterious.

No one knows quite where it came from, since none of her immediate family members are well versed in the ways of song.

But the five-year-old kindergartener from Tsiigehtchic has her own voice and isn't afraid to use it.

Cole learned to sing when she was three, though she's not sure how, and she's rarely stopped since.

"I just got into it," she said. When talking about her favourite pastime, her small voice bubbles up with excitement at the mention of it. "I really like singing."

The first song she learned to sing, according to her grandmother, Mavis Clark, was "Love and Marriage," the theme song from the '90s TV series Married With Children.

"She's goofy, crazy with her songs," Clark laughed. "She used to always be singing that and "I'd be sitting in the truck, driving, and I'd say, 'what are you singing? Oh my God!' That was a shocker."

Dayle hasn't yet experienced stage fright. She gets a special thrill out of singing in front of family and friends and she said she hoped she'd have the same experience at Tsiigehtchic's community Christmas concert at Chief Paul Niditchie School this week.

Although, to be honest, she'd just as soon not have an audience - she sings for herself, not to please others.

"She's her own little person already," Clark said. "She's been her own little person right from when she could first speak."

What impresses others most about Dayle's singing voice is that she's sincere but never showy.

"She's got a tiny voice. She sings clearly and she knows the songs, but she sings it very softly," her grandmother said.

"It's beyond us where she gets her singing and her talent from."

She's not sure what exactly she likes about it, but singing just comes naturally to Dayle.

Her favourite song to sing is called "My Cuppycake," a heartfelt ballad which, she explained earnestly, "my mom teached me."

But for all the joy that singing brings her, Dayle recognizes that even five years old isn't too early to have a back-up plan and start thinking about other career options.

When asked if she wants to be a singer when she grows up, Dayle's instinctual response is, "yes!"

Then she pauses to consider the possibility.

"No," she said, having thought about her future some more. "My grandma said there needs to be a doctor in the family."

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