A Love Beyond Time: Zanna Records Releases the Official Music Video for “You Are My Destiny” featuring Joseph Wooten. The story on screen and the extraordinary 36-hour journey it took to film it.
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ARIZONA — Zanna Records has released the official music video for “You Are My Destiny,” original song by Gianluca Zanna, featuring three-time Grammy-nominated keyboardist Joseph Wooten (The Wooten Brothers and The Steve Miller Band) and remixed by Danny Saber (U2, The Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna). More than a music video, it is a short film about love beyond time and the friendship that binds us all — a reminder that beneath the same universe, we are one human race. And the making of it became a journey every bit as improbable as the story on screen.
“No matter how much we planned, a thousand things could have gone wrong. Instead, an angel walked every mile with us.”
The Story the Video Tells
The film opens in another century: a man and a woman aboard a vintage train, the desert sweeping past the window, and a single line on the screen — “I loved you before I was born.” Then Joseph Wooten sits at his keyboard, and the music itself becomes a kind of magic. As his hands move across the keys — keys that carry his lifelong message, “I Matter / You Matter” — time bends, and interdimensional gates open.
Luca and Claudette are carried across the eras aboard the train, traveling through night and starlight and the cosmos itself, until they arrive at Joseph’s home and reconnect — remembering the innocent days when the three of them were children, bound together by nothing more and nothing less than their love of music. It is a love story that outlasts lifetimes, and a story of friendship between people of every kind: souls who keep finding one another, drawn back by the song. The closing image says it plainly — three children of different backgrounds embracing, the whole Earth cradled between them. We are all one race under the universe.
A Journey Worthy of the Song
To make the video, Gianluca Zanna (Luca) and singer Claudette Lyons traveled from the Arizona desert to Franklin, Tennessee, to meet Joseph Wooten — and the trip unfolded like a film of its own.
It began at 2:00 AM at the Amtrak station in Flagstaff. The little ticket room felt suspended in the 1950s — dark wood, an old television flickering with an episode of The Twilight Zone, as if the universe were whispering that they had crossed into another dimension. Behind the counter stood a soft-spoken, kindly man named Will, who did everything at once — ticket clerk, porter, guide. Remember his name.
The train arrived at 3:49 AM, exactly on time. Luca and Claudette shared a tiny roomette, “folded into each other like two sardines in a tin,” and through the next day they began filming the first frames as the country rolled past the window — Claudette in a gown that married Gone with the Wind to punk rock, Southern grace stitched with rebellion.
The Tornado and the Clock
Then came the first crisis. They woke to a sky the color of a bruise and an intercom crackling two words that freeze any traveler’s blood: tornado watch. The train would bypass cities; the Chicago arrival slipped from 4 PM toward 6. But the Avis rental counter near Union Station closed at 6:00 PM — and missing it threatened to unravel the entire plan.
The rails teased them — gaining time, then stalling, stop after stop with no city in sight. The great station finally appeared at 5:30 PM. They seized their luggage and ran. Nearly bolting the wrong way through the vast terminal, they were redirected by an Amtrak attendant who pointed them to the right exit without a single word being asked of him — as though placed there for exactly that purpose. On the street, the skyscrapers swallowed the GPS signal. The moment Luca decided to hail a cab, a taxi pulled up to unload its passenger right in front of them.
They reached the Avis door at 5:59 PM — sixty seconds to spare. The first battle was won, and the keys to a white SUV were in hand.
Into the Storm — and the Rain That Never Fell
Ahead lay at least eight hours of night driving, straight into severe thunderstorm warnings. Claudette drove first while Luca read the directions aloud, the GPS leading them onto lonely back routes across the dark Indiana plains. The horizon split open with enormous lightning and towering thunderheads; the radio screamed weather alerts. And yet — not a single drop of rain touched them. They rode just minutes behind the storm’s fury, all the way across Indiana, through Kentucky, and on into Tennessee.
Near 5:00 AM they reached Franklin. The gates of the rented estate rose before them at 5:30 AM; the birds were already singing though the sun had not yet risen. They collapsed into sleep at 6:00 AM, the dawn breaking over them like a benediction — thirty-six hours after they had begun.
The Day Destiny Smiled
That afternoon, Joseph Wooten and his wife, Stephanie, arrived. They set Joseph’s keyboard on a wooden deck above a quiet pond and began to shoot — a drone rising into the air, every frame unfolding like something already blessed. The day before had poured rain. But this day gave sculpted clouds and open blue sky, light so perfect it could only be called destiny. They finished the video and shared a dinner Luca cooked himself — spaghetti with mushrooms — talking long past the work, learning who Joseph and Stephanie truly are.
The connection ran deeper than a single day. Luca and Claudette met Joseph a year earlier in New York, as finalists and judges in the Next American Top Hit Maker. A photograph, a friendship, months of staying in touch — and then the invitation to play “You Are My Destiny,” and the gift of his “yes.” Now here they were, three people from different worlds, making something timeless on fifteen acres outside Nashville.
The Angel on the Way Home
The next day they returned the SUV at the Nashville airport and flew home to Phoenix — and then came the news that stopped their breath. The very roads they had driven only twenty-four hours before were now under tornado warnings: homes destroyed, violent storms tearing across the exact route they had crossed in the dark.
About the Release
“You Are My Destiny” is a 123 BPM instrumental-driven electronic record in the cinematic tradition of Giorgio Moroder, topped by the unmistakable keyboard voice of Joseph Wooten and remixed by Danny Saber and produced by Gianluca Zanna. It is available worldwide in two remix versions through Zanna Records, whose music now reaches 424 radio stations across 94 countries and six continents.
About Zanna Records
Zanna Records is an independent music label based in Sedona, Arizona, founded by songwriter and producer Gianluca Zanna. Built entirely without major-label backing, the label has grown from zero to a global radio presence, with more than 33 million YouTube views and a catalog of original compositions celebrating love, freedom, and the human spirit. Its guiding belief is simple: that music — chosen by people, for people — still has the power to connect us across any distance, any difference, and any lifetime.
MEDIA CONTACT
Zanna Records · Sedona, Arizona, USA
the magic of Sedona vortex transpired in the journey from Flagstaff to Nashville.
Awesome love story!!