Even before the Grammy award for best world music album was announced during a pre-telecast ceremony on Feb. 12, Haruka Fujii was awestruck.
"Walking on the red carpet at the venue, I didn't even know where to look because everyone was dressed so gorgeously," the Saitama-born percussionist says excitedly. "Adele passed behind us!"
When the presenter read the name of her group, the multimember Silk Road Ensemble, which won for the album "Sing Me Home," Fujii and seven other ensemble members walked up on stage to receive the award. She says it was a "moving moment."