“You Are My Destiny” Comes Home to Ireland — Zanna Records Wins Unsolicited Airplay on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, the World’s Only National Irish-Language Radio Station
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The independent Arizona label’s song was discovered and played entirely on the station’s own initiative — no pitch, no plugger, no major-label push. For singer Claudette Lyons, of Irish descent and descendant of a Bronx family honored with a New York City park, the airplay is a homecoming generations in the making.
SEDONA, AZ — Some airplay is chased. This one arrived on its own. On July 10, 2026, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta — the national Irish-language radio service of Ireland’s public broadcaster, RTÉ, and the only national radio station in the world that broadcasts entirely in the Irish language — played “You Are My Destiny (Remix)” by Zanna Records. The placement was completely unsolicited: the station found the song and chose to air it on its own, without any submission, promotion, or industry campaign behind it.
For an independent label operating with no major-label backing, an unsolicited placement on a national public broadcaster of this stature is the rarest and most meaningful kind of recognition — the kind that even major-label artists, with entire promotional machines behind them, are rarely handed. It happened here purely on the merit of the music.
A Homecoming for Claudette Lyons
The placement carries a deeply personal resonance. Claudette Lyons, the singer of “You Are My Destiny” and one half of the EDM duo Luca and Claudette, is of Irish descent — and to hear her voice carried by a station devoted to preserving the Irish language and its living culture felt like a circle closing.
Her family name carries its own American history. The Lyons family traces to the Bronx, New York, where Claudette’s ancestor James L. Lyons — a Civil War veteran and landowner — was honored by New York City with a public park bearing the family name. Lyons Square Playground in the Bronx was officially named for James L. Lyons by the Board of Aldermen on April 17, 1928, and stands to this day. For a descendant of that Bronx-Irish lineage to have her voice welcomed onto Ireland’s national Irish-language airwaves is a homecoming generations in the making.
“To have Claudette’s voice reach Ireland — on a station whose entire mission is to protect and celebrate Irish heritage — and to have it happen without us ever asking, is something we will never forget,” said Gianluca Zanna, founder of Zanna Records. “Claudette carries Irish roots. This was more than airplay. It was a part of who she is, meeting the country it came from.”
A Station Like No Other
Established on April 2, 1972, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta — known as RnáG — broadcasts on FM across Ireland and via satellite and internet to Irish speakers worldwide, including the global diaspora. Headquartered in Casla, County Galway, with major studios in Donegal and Kerry, it is a cornerstone of Irish cultural life, championing traditional Irish music, sean-nós singing, news, and Gaelic sports. As the world’s only national radio service broadcasting entirely in the Irish language, it holds a singular place in global broadcasting — a guardian of a living language and culture. That such a station would choose, on its own, to give an independent label’s song a place on its airwaves speaks to the universal reach of the music.
Organic Global Expansion — Without a Major Label
The Ireland airplay is the latest chapter in one of independent music’s most striking organic growth stories. Built by Gianluca Zanna from the ground up with no major-label backing, Zanna Records has expanded across the world not through paid promotion or industry machinery, but through the music finding its own audience — station by station, country by country.
The label’s music now enjoys verified radio airplay across 469 stations in 99 countries & territories on 6 continents (WARM + Songstats verified). Its reach is backed by a YouTube channel with over 35.8 million total views and over 19,000 subscribers growing every day (vidIQ / YouTube-certified), and 1.36 million monthly YouTube Music listeners. Prior press coverage includes Rolling Stone (US & UK), Forbes, Billboard Italia, Music Connection, and Entrepreneur UK, PIX 11 NY, NBC Palm Springs, Fox News San Diego and coming CBS Las Vegas.
It is a footprint that many major-label artists, with far greater resources, never achieve — and Zanna Records has built it independently, one honest connection at a time from an off grid ranch in the middle of the Arizona Desert, without any industry's connections or Major Label backing.
“We never pitched this song to Ireland. We never sent a plugger, never spent a dollar on promotion there. The station simply found the music and played it. That is the whole story of Zanna Records — no major label, no machine, just the music reaching people on its own, all over the world. To watch that happen on the world’s only national Irish-language station, with Claudette’s Irish roots, is everything we believe in, proven true.”
— Gianluca Zanna, Founder, Zanna Records
About Zanna Records
Zanna Records is the independent music label founded and operated by Gianluca Zanna, built without major-label backing. Performing as “Luca” in the EDM duo Luca and Claudette alongside singer Claudette Lyons, Zanna is a Rome-born, Arizona-based songwriter behind a catalog of original compositions spanning EDM, rock, and classical. The label’s music reaches audiences worldwide through verified radio airplay across 469 stations in 99 countries & territories on 6 continents, a YouTube channel with over 35.8 million total views and 19,000 subscribers, and 1.36 million monthly YouTube Music listeners. Learn more at www.zannarecords.com and LucaClaudette.com.
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