Taylor Hawkins shared sweet moment with fan, 9, who played drums outside his hotel earlier this week

(NEXSTAR) – Just days prior to his tragic dying, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins shared a sweet instant with a 9-yr-previous musician from South The usa who coaxed him out of his lodge by playing her drums on the street.

Emma Sofía, a young drummer who goes by @emmasofiamusic on Instagram, experienced been hoping to satisfy the band when they played the Asunciónico music competition in Paraguay on March 22, but the concert was canceled thanks to severe weather conditions and flooding.

“Emma started out 1st a campaign [on social media] to achieve the Foo Fighters for the reason that she needed to play with them,” Emma’s father Julius Peralta informed Nexstar. “We hardly ever acquired any response from them but we went to the display even so.”

When the competition was canceled at the last minute, Peralta stated they prepared to return house for the evening till some good friends named to say the band was being at the Sheraton hotel in Asuncion.

“We took her drum package and went,” he explained.

Soon ample, Emma was sitting driving her drum kit on the sidewalk, jamming out in entrance of the resort. In footage shared to social media, she could be noticed enjoying alongside to “The Pretender” by Foo Fighters and Nirvana’s “In Bloom” while a group of fellow admirers sang out the lyrics.

Following about a half-hour, Hawkins created an visual appearance and scanned the group for Emma. Peralta has due to the fact shared a photo of the two on Twitter, wherever it has gained much more than 250,000 likes.

“Dreams come accurate,” he wrote in the caption.

Emma ongoing to participate in for a minimal when for a longer time in the hopes of finding Dave Grohl’s consideration, but it was acquiring late “so we went dwelling,” Peralta stated.

On social media, Emma’s parents stated that they hadn’t straight away educated her of Hawkins’ loss of life, as they have been hoping to spare her “a whole lot of suffering.” She was executing in her initial present on Friday evening, they defined, and they “didn’t have the braveness to break the magic of that unforgettable instant,” in accordance to a translation of the write-up.

Emma’s mothers and fathers reported they had been setting up to enable her know of Hawkins’ passing sometime on Saturday.

Foo Fighters verified Hawkins’ demise on Friday night time, and questioned for privacy at “this unimaginably challenging time.” The band subsequently canceled its future concerts in light of the tragic news.

No result in of demise was instantly offered by authorities in Bogota, Colombia, exactly where the band was scheduled to play on Friday.