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CODA costar Daniel Durant, who is deaf, shares a story about turning up the sound system in his car. A musicologist explains that people who are deaf have a complex appreciation of sound.
Actor Daniel Durant, appearing on the <em>Kelly Clarkson Show</em>, describes how he enjoyed radio as a child by feeling vibrations from a car's sound system turned up all the way.
Updated March 18, 2022 at 7:36 PM ET

In the movie CODA, which is up for best picture at this year's Academy Awards, the father of the family, who is deaf, likes to listen to loud hip hop in his car. He bumps up the sound to feel the beats vibrating through his body.

One of the film's costars, Daniel Durant, who plays the brother of the main character, has a similar affinity.

"I'm fully deaf. I can't hear anything at all but, while promoting .

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