Meet the tot who can't stand the children's hit 'Baby shark' and prefers listening to 70's Motown, soul and R&B classics.

Ace Morris, one, loves Motown, soul and funk classics and has been listening to them since before he was born.

Mum Melissa Morris, 36, used to play music for him using pregnancy headphones every day.

At age one, Ace already knows all the classics and often requests his mum to play some his favourites.

Ace is a big fan of Michael Jackson, The O'Jays, and The gap Band and his favourite song is "What You Won't do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell.

Adorable videos show Ace busting some moves to his favourite music and asking his mum to play soul singer Teddy Pendergrass and R&B crooner Bobby Caldwell.

Melissa, a stay-at-home mum, said: "When I was pregnant, we had headphones to play it for him in my stomach, and he would just kick all day, he loved it."

As a result, Ace now refuses to listen to the songs one would expect from a one-year-old such as the smash-hit children's song "Baby Shark".

"I've had him look at me and say, no Baby Shark, mommy, no", Melissa said.

Motown, soul and funk runs deep in Ace's family, who live in Detroit, Michigan, USA, Motown's birthplace.

She explained: "We're just fans ourselves, the music just resonates with us, I'm from Detroit, so it runs in our blood."

Melissa and Ace's father, Jonathan, 41, are overjoyed to see him so passionate about music.

She added: "I'm so proud of him, anything that makes him happy makes me happy, I'm overjoyed to see him light up when he hears his songs.

"Johnathan is his biggest hype man, he hypes him up every time he sees him dancing.

"Other people think it's hilarious, Ace will tell me what to play so he can show off his moves.

"I think being a musician is in his future, he'll tell me: Guitar, mommy guitar! I think it's his future."