A young boy's incredible voice has peaked the interest of a producer and writer who want to write a charity single with him in the new year.

Calum Courtney, 10, from Basildon was supporting a charity collection with his aunt, Katy Rose, 24, who was supporting the mental health charity, Mind, with her company, Brightstar Finance.

During the collection at the Eastgate Centre branch of Asda in Basildon, the ten-year-old performed a cover of Who's Lovin' You by Smokey Robinson.

Since the performance, a video of Calum's performance has been seen by 975,000 people and shared more than 12,000 times (on Wednesday December 20).

Tupney Courtney, 34, Calum's mum said that the video was originally only supposed to be seen by his dad, before Katy posted it on Facebook.

She said:" My sister and her company, Brightstar get a different charity in each year which this year was Mind.

"Katy put it forward because of our mum who has been helped by them because of her struggles with mental health.

"When she went to collect at Asda, most of the shopping centre was closed and she said it would be a good idea if Callum were to sing for everyone.

"I do not think people thought that it was Callum singing at first and it was just the music in the shop.

"It wasn't until the looked and caught his eye that they realised.

"I decided to video it for my husband because he was at work, then my sister put it up on Facebook."

Since the video blew up online, the family have received a huge amount of support for Calum, who discovered his passion for music at a very young age.

Tupney said: "He taught himself to play the drums when he was 18 months old.

"He would drum on a box in time to music and that developed into him being incredible on the drums.

"The next thing became singing for Calum."

Calum, who has a mild form of autism began singing properly when he turned six-years-old.

Although in some cases, autism can mean that children will not be confident in social situations, Tupney said that Calum thrives.

Through his talent, Calum has had the opportunity to perform on the same stage as Emeli Sandé for the National Autistic Society.

The performance also meant Calum showed off his talents before Sophie, Countess of Wessex.

She said: "He loves how it feels and hearing the sound of his voice when he sings.

"He is always singing around the house and performing in public has never been a problem. The more people, the better for Calum when he is performing.

"He did not realise how good he was until he saw the video, he said: 'Mum, I'm actually really good.'"

Calum will be in the studio in the first week of January where he hopes to record his first charity single.

Considering how young Calum is and how quickly things has grown, Tupney believes that there is plenty of time for him to work out if he wants to take on singing as a full career.

However, Calum already has big dreams for his future.

She said: "The only way he will know if he wants to do it as a career is if he tries it because it is not easy.

"He thinks he's gonna be able to buy a mansion, he has a bit of an obsession with building them on Minecraft."