It’s a rare occasion for a French song to get to the top of the charts in countries that do not speak the language, which might explain why Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop, better known by her stage name “Desireless” is kind of considered a one-hit-wonder outsider her native France. But “Voyage Voyage” made it to the top in several countries, including the UK and Ireland, West Germany (you do remember there used to be two Germanies, don’t you?), Norway and Spain. Ironically it only made it to second place in France itself.

Fritsch-Mentrop was originally in fashion design and started her singing career relatively late, after a trip to India. She created the androgynous and cold persona of Desireless and had a falling out with her label as they wanted too much influence in the character for her taste.

While she’s still performing and writing new songs she was never able to reproduce the fame outside France.

Probably the only music video featured on our blog that prominently mentions its director.