MEXICO CITY'S GOVERNMENT STATION SELECTS INDEPENDENT ZANNA RECORD LABEL WITHOUT A SINGLE PITCH
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Horizonte 107.9 FM — Mexico City's Prestigious IMER Public Broadcaster, Home of World Music — Independently Discovers and Airs "I Am Destiny" by Gianluca Zanna feat. Claudette Lyons
SEDONA, ARIZONA — April 14, 2026 — In a milestone that speaks louder than any promotional campaign ever could, Mexico City's most culturally prestigious radio station independently selected and aired "I Am Destiny" by independent artist Gianluca Zanna — a track the station was never sent, never pitched, and never asked to play.
Horizonte 107.9 FM, callsign XHIMR-FM, is not a commercial dance station. It is a government-owned public broadcaster operated by the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio (IMER) — Mexico's national public radio authority — and it is the only station in Mexico City dedicated exclusively to jazz and world music. Its 30 kW transmitter, positioned 540 meters above average terrain in Ajusco, blankets all of Greater Mexico City and its 22 million residents. It is, in every sense of the word, an institution.
On April 14, 2026 at 10:02 AM local time, that institution played "I Am Destiny" — confirmed and timestamped via WARM, the World Airplay Radio Monitor used by the global music industry to track radio plays in real time. Zanna Records received no advance notice. No submission was ever made. No email was ever sent. The station found the music entirely on its own.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PLACEMENT
A public broadcaster with a jazz and world music mandate is, by its very nature, one of the most selective and culturally discerning gatekeepers in any market. Unlike commercial stations driven by charts and label relationships, IMER's Horizonte 107.9 exists to champion music of genuine artistic merit. Its programmers choose based on taste alone.
That a trance-EDM track produced independently in the Arizona desert crossed the desk of a Mexico City jazz programmer — and cleared it — is a testament to the emotional depth and cross-genre appeal of "I Am Destiny." The song, originally written over five years ago and reimagined as a powerful new remix, carries the melodic architecture and emotional intensity that transcends genre classifications. It is the kind of music that moves people regardless of what format box the industry tries to place it in.
Mexico City reaching 22 million people is not a footnote. It is one of the largest radio markets in the Western Hemisphere. A 30 kW signal from Ajusco reaches from Ecatepec to Xochimilco, from Tlalnepantla to Chalco. To be aired in that market — on a station of IMER's stature, without a single promotional effort — is the kind of validation that radio budgets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars rarely achieve.
IN GIANLUCA'S WORDS
"Mexico City finding me — through one of the most respected public radio institutions in Latin America — is proof that music has no borders, no genre, and no gatekeepers. The song goes where it needs to go."
— Gianluca Zanna, Founder & CEO, Zanna Records | Sedona, Arizona
Horizonte 107.9 FM is the latest in a series of prestigious, zero-submission radio discoveries for Zanna Records in 2026 alone. Earlier this year, Puls FM Sweden — one of Scandinavia's most popular commercial stations — placed "I Am Destiny" on a playlist alongside David Guetta, Sia, and BLACKPINK. Chile's Positiva FM, a 14-station national network owned by the El Mercurio media group, added it to rotation without contact. KRCL 90.9 FM in Utah — a respected non-profit community institution whose DJs hand-curate every track — independently selected it. On a single day in April, five stations across five countries discovered the song simultaneously, without a single outreach email.
As of April 2026, "I Am Destiny" is confirmed in active rotation at 251+ stations across 72+ countries on 6 continents — all tracked and verified via WARM.
The Gianluca Zanna Music YouTube channel, home to the official music video, has surpassed 23 million total views (vidIQ certified April 11, 2026),
with almost 1 Million monthly listeners on YouTube Music.
The track's viral companion, "Wake Up America," has exceeded 20 million TikTok views (Songstats confirmed April 4, 2026).
Zanna Records, founded and operated solely by Gianluca Zanna from his ranch in Sedona, Arizona, has achieved all of this without major label backing, without a radio promoter, and without a PR firm. The music has found its own way — from the Arizona high desert to the hallowed airwaves of Mexico City's most distinguished public broadcaster.
ABOUT GIANLUCA ZANNA & ZANNA RECORDS
Gianluca Zanna is a Rome-born, Italian-American songwriter, music producer, and the Founder & CEO of Zanna Records, an independent label based in Sedona, Arizona. He grew up since the age of 11 in public boarding School Convitto Nazionale and then joined the Nunziatella military academy in Naples, at the age of 24 he was a former publisher of Italy's leading music industry magazine Contatto Discografico, he immigrated to the United States in 1998 and built Zanna Records from scratch with a catalog of 150+ original compositions spanning EDM, classical, and rock — all fully owned by Zanna Records. His music has been featured in Rolling Stone (US & UK), Forbes, Billboard Italia, Entrepreneur UK, and Music Connection.
He is also a Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Krav Maga Black Belt Military Instructor. As the artist "Luca" in the EDM duo Luca and Claudette (with singer Claudette Lyons), he is represented in the US by David Helfant Law Offices.
MEDIA CONTACT
Gianluca Zanna · Founder & CEO, Zanna Records
zannarecords.com · Sedona, Arizona
Music Video: youtube.com/@GianlucaZannaMusic
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