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Desireless is French singer Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop, not a band. Her 1986 'Voyage, voyage', an imaginary trip around the world, was No. 1 in four countries.

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Desireless is the stage name of Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop, a French singer; it is one person, not a band.[1][2][3] Her 1986 single 'Voyage, voyage', with words by Jean-Michel Rivat and music by Dominique Dubois,[3] reached No. 1 in West Germany, Austria, Norway and Spain and No. 2 in France, and a 1988 remix reached No. 5 in the United Kingdom.[4][5][6][7][8]

She left her record company around 1990 and kept recording and touring outside the major labels, mostly on her own releases and small labels.[9][10] From 2011 her main musical partner was the guitarist and producer Antoine Aurèche, who worked as Operation of the Sun and later as Valfeu.[11][12][13] In the mid-1990s she moved to the Drôme, and in 2011 she said she still lived in Buis-les-Baronnies.[9][14][15] Forty years after its release, 'Voyage, voyage' had passed 337 million Spotify streams by 13 October 2026, and on 22 October 2026 it was in the Shazam top 50 of 17 countries.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]

Early life and fashion

According to her official website, she spent her childhood with her grandparents Louise and Élie in Le Tréport, by the sea, and later grew up in the western suburbs of Paris, in a youth marked by May 1968.[34] She told Paris Match that she left school during the première year of the lycée and hitchhiked as a teenager in the hippie years.[9] She said in 2011 that she shared her 25 December birthday with Annie Lennox, a singer she admired.[10]

She trained at the Studio Berçot fashion school in Paris and worked as a stylist, and after several ready-to-wear houses she launched her own collection, Poivre et Sel, with Claude Sabbah.[35][9][36] In 1980 she spent about two weeks in India presenting a collection and came back determined to leave fashion for music; she told Paris Match that she gave up her work, her partner and her flat and moved back to her mother's home to afford it.[10][9]

Career: from Couleur Locale to 'Voyage, voyage' (1980–1987)

Her first band, Couleur Locale, played new wave built on synthesisers, with Niels Poux on bass and Eric Kramer on synthesiser.[35][10] With a later group, Air'89, she released her first 7-inch single in 1984, a project in which Jean-Michel Rivat, the writer and producer known for his work with Joe Dassin and Michel Delpech, was already involved.[10][9][37] Rivat wrote 'Cherchez l'amour' and 'Qui peut savoir ?' for her before 'Voyage, voyage'.[9]

Asked in 2011 where the name Desireless came from, she said it simply came to her, like the song, and that she read it as 'without the desire to possess'; it also appealed to Rivat, whom she described as very mystical.[10] Her official website dates her work with Rivat and Dubois to 1984 and her debut as Desireless to 'Voyage, voyage' in 1986.[37]

'Voyage, voyage' had first been offered to Michel Delpech, who turned it down.[3][10] The French 7-inch single on CBS carried the instrumental 'Destin fragile' on its B-side; it was recorded at Studio d'Aguesseau and mixed at Studio Marcadet by Dominique Blanc-Francard.[1][4] The sleeve credits Rivat with synthesisers, programming and production, Dubois with sampler, Daniel Glikmans and Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop with backing vocals, Jean Paul Gaultier for the clothing and Jean-Claude Lagrèze for the photography.[1] A 12-inch maxi single carried a 6:45 extended remix.[4]

INA, the French broadcast archive, holds a television performance of the song dated 20 October 1986 and an interview from FR3 Toulouse's 'La vie à plein temps' dated 20 November 1986, in which she was asked about her pseudonym, her fashion studies and her hair.[38][3][39][40] The music video, directed by Bettina Rheims, first aired in December 1986; she said in 2011 that she had not chosen Rheims and did not like the video, though she valued that it unsettled viewers.[41][10]

The single entered the French Top 50 at No. 11 on 13 December 1986, spent four weeks at No. 2 from 17 January to 7 February 1987 and charted for 21 weeks; Music & Media reported on 7 February that Elsa's 'T'en va pas' held No. 1 above it.[4][42] It finished sixth among French singles of 1986, and InfoDisc dates its French Gold certification to that year.[43][44] A CBS advertisement in Music & Media on 24 January 1987, the week she was billed for the Midem Trophy gala in Cannes, gave her sales as 400,000 copies; by April the magazine reported 756,000 in France.[45][46]

In April 1987 Music & Media reported that she had recorded three Dutch television shows and that the single had just been released in Italy, Spain and Sweden; it described Rivat as her manager, producer and co-writer.[46] Its Swiss entry was, the magazine said, the first time a French CBS artist had crossed into a German-speaking market with a French-language song.[46] FR3 Marseille filmed her singing it during 'La plus sympa des nuits' on 28 February 1987.[3][47]

'Voyage, voyage' across Europe (1987–1988)

In Spain Music & Media reported it at No. 1 for a fifth week on 29 August 1987 and a seventh on 12 September.[48][7] On 5 September it reported a jump from No. 2 to No. 1 in Germany, replacing the Pet Shop Boys' 'It's a Sin', and by 19 September it had held No. 1 there for three weeks; it charted for 24 weeks in West Germany and was certified Gold there in 1987.[6][49][4][5][50][51]

In Austria, where the Ö3 chart then came out every two weeks, it entered at No. 13 on 1 September 1987, was No. 1 on the charts of 1 and 15 October and stayed 16 weeks; Music & Media reported on 3 October that its European sales stood at 1.2 million.[5][52] In Switzerland it peaked at No. 4 on 27 September and 4 October 1987 in a 32-week run and topped the Swiss year-end chart for 1987.[53][54] It reached No. 1 in Norway, No. 9 in the Netherlands, No. 11 in Sweden and No. 12 in Portugal; in Belgium, Music & Media reported it second behind Mel & Kim in February 1987, while Hung Medien's Flanders archive lists a peak of No. 19.[4][53][55][6][42]

In the United Kingdom CBS released the original in October 1987, and it peaked at No. 53 in a seven-week run from 24 October.[56][8][57] A remix made for PWL by Pete Hammond and Pete Waterman came out in April 1988 and entered the chart on 14 May, peaking at No. 5 in a 13-week run; Euronews later counted it among the French songs that did best in Britain, noting that it caught on there only after the remix.[58][8][59][60]

Music & Media's year-end issue of December 1987 called her CBS France's biggest discovery of the year, gave European sales as 2.5 million copies, listed a Spanish double-platinum award and placed the song fifth in its poll of European programmers for International Single of the Year.[51] Billboard reported in November 1988 that sales had passed two million.[61] Later figures vary by source: Le Dauphiné Libéré wrote in 1997 that she had sold 3.5 million records, and Purecharts and Side-Line in 2018 gave five million copies.[15][62][63][64]

Career: 'John', 'François' and the break with CBS (1988–1990)

Her second single, 'John', written, arranged and produced by Rivat, entered the French chart at No. 34 on 21 May 1988, peaked at No. 5 for two weeks and charted for 18 weeks; it was certified Silver and finished 35th among French singles of 1988, and spent one week in the UK chart at No. 92.[65][66][44][67][8] She told Paris Match that by 1988 CBS had been bought by Sony and that the new decision-makers imposed her image, videos, photographs and songs.[9]

Her first album, 'François', was released by CBS in 1989, and Epic issued it in Japan on 8 October 1989.[4][68] The LP credits Rivat with words, music and arrangements and Dominique Blanc-Francard with the mix, and its sleeve is dedicated to Swami Ritajananda; her website says she and Rivat worked on it without a break from 1987 to 1990.[69][37] 'Qui sommes-nous ?' (1989) and 'Elle est comme les étoiles' (1990) followed as CBS singles without reaching the French chart, and Epic International issued 'Hari Ôm Ramakrishna' in Japan on 21 February 1990.[70][71][68][72][73]

She told Paris Match that in 1990 she was asked to repeat the same kind of video with the same haircut, refused and walked out of the deal; in 2011 she said there had been no lawsuit and that Rivat held it against her for a long time.[9][10] Her website describes 1990 to 1992 as the end of an era, followed by the birth of her daughter, Lili.[74][9]

Career: 'I Love You' and the move to the Drôme (1990s)

She said she spent about two years with her daughter and two more making her second album, 'I Love You', released in 1994 on the Gopal label with distribution by BMG France and arrangements by Charles France and Desireless.[10][75][76] 'Il dort', written by the two of them, was issued as a single, and a duet version of 'I Love You' with Charles came out as a CD single on Gopal.[77][78]

She told France Dimanche in 2018, as quoted by 20 Minutes, that in 1995 she decided to leave show business and the stress of the Paris region.[14] Le Dauphiné Libéré found her in August 1997 in an old farmhouse in the Baronnies above Buis-les-Baronnies, facing Mont Ventoux, preparing a new album and putting together a small band.[15] On 14 August 1998 she gave an open-air concert at the natural theatre of Le Poët-en-Percip with the Argentine guitarist Domingo, her first time back on stage after years away.[15] Her website says that between about 1998 and 2000 she played her own songs in holiday houses, chapels and small venues with the twelve-string guitarist Michel Gentils.[79]

Career: independent records and RFM Party 80 (2000s)

In 2003 she self-released the five-track EP 'La Vie est belle', produced with Fabien Scarlakens and Edouard Germinet, and the promotional single 'Nul ne sait'; the same year Sony Music Media France issued the compilation 'Ses plus grands succès' with two unreleased tracks, 'Van Gogh' and 'Dans le jardin d'Eden'.[80][81][82] The live album 'Un brin de paille', recorded with Michel Gentils, followed in 2004.[83][79]

Her website says that in the early 2000s she recorded 'More Love & Good Vibrations' with DJ Esteban while touring in France and abroad; it came out on Anthology's as a double CD in 2007, and the promotional single 'Free Your Love' preceded it in 2006.[84][85][86] With the guitarist Mic-Eco she recorded and toured the self-released album 'Le petit bisou' in 2007.[87][88]

From 2007 she toured with RFM Party 80, a nostalgia show; she later said the first two years were magical and the third was for the fans and for the money.[10][9] On that tour she met the Belgian musician Alec Mansion, formerly of Léopold Nord & Vous, with whom she released the duet 'Tes voyages me voyagent' on AKA Music in 2009.[9][89][90] An INA news report of 5 March 2010 showed the tour's 2010 season opening in Boulazac, near Périgueux, with her singing 'Voyage, voyage'; the report said 40 concerts were planned up to December.[91] A 2010 remix of the song by DJ Esteban came out as a promotional single.[92][10]

Career: Operation of the Sun (2011–2018)

The six-track EP 'L'expérience humaine', made with Alec Mansion and funded by 576 individual backers, was released on Akamusic in May 2011 and peaked at No. 29 on the French singles chart on 5 September; she said that only about 800 copies were placed in shops.[93][9][89][72][10] Mansion wrote the title song imagining her as an extraterrestrial who had enjoyed her human experience.[10] She appeared as herself in the 2012 film 'Stars 80', which Purecharts said drew 1.8 million cinema admissions.[62][10]

Her first release with Operation of the Sun, the digital EP 'L'Oeuf du Dragon', came out on 12 June 2012, and an album of the same name, with new versions of 'John' and 'Voyage, voyage', followed on Urgence Disk Records on 26 March 2013.[94][95] La Provence reported in March 2015 that Aurèche was working with her as a duo and accompanying her on tour.[12]

The album 'Noun' came out on Urgence Disk Records in 2014, and the video for 'L'or du Rhin', drawing on a Celtic theme by O'Carolan and the Song of the Nibelungs, was published on 4 March.[96][97][98] Midi Libre described their show at the Tresques Contemporain festival on 16 August 2014 as very electronic, driven by electric guitar and tinged with ethnic melodies.[13] 'Un seul peuple' (23 November 2014) included a cover of Étienne Daho's 'Duel au soleil', a Russian version of 'L'or du Rhin' and new versions of 'Voyage, voyage' and 'John'.[99]

'Guillaume', an album of songs from poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, was released on 27 October 2015 with a 28-page booklet.[100] RTBF reported in October 2016 that the duo had turned it into a one-hour musical tale with a puppet of the poet, with a first performance booked for 4 November 2016 at the Abbaye de Stavelot in Belgium, home of the Apollinaire museum; she said that three quarters of the material came from Apollinaire and one quarter from the duo.[101] On 3 July 2016 she performed a new version of 'Voyage, voyage' with Operation of the Sun on ZDF's 'Fernsehgarten'.[102] Her website says that between 2011 and 2018 she and Aurèche made five albums and about 200 concerts in France and abroad.[11]

Career: books and later recordings (2017–2026)

In 2017 she published her first book, 'Le ciel est toujours bleu', and Éditions Patrick Roulph issued 'Faucheuse d'OGM' and 'Méditage-relaxage', both illustrated by Titi; the latter came with a USB stick of relaxation videos, an ambient album by Valfeu and the documentary 'Un autre espace'.[36][64][103][104][105] 'Jardin secret, ou les rêveries d'une promeneuse solitaire' followed in 2019.[103][64]

In July 2018 she recorded a stripped-down 'Voyage, voyage (for Lili)' with Valfeu, featuring her daughter.[106][63] She told France Dimanche in 2018 that, as the singer rather than the writer, she earned about 2,000 euros a year from the song's royalties and lived mainly from performing it.[14][62] On 25 December 2022 she released 'Voyage avec Operation Of The Sun', a 28-track remastered collection with an unreleased version of 'Voyage, voyage' and drawings by Léo Di Fazio.[107][108]

She featured on REDLAUGH's single 'Voyage' on 19 February 2024. 'VOYAGE VOYAGE', a three-track single credited to DIAZ & Desireless, came out on the A+ label on 11 October 2025, and 'Voyage Voyage (International Club Mix)' on 16 January 2026.[107][109]

On 13 April 2026 the Iranian embassy in South Africa posted an AI-generated video of Donald Trump singing a parody called 'Blockade, Blockade' to the tune of 'Voyage, voyage'.[110][111] She told BFMTV that her song had been used for everything, including Emmanuel Macron, and that she refused its use without her consent, least of all by politicians; a February 2025 AI video of Macron had also used it.[110][112][3] INA marked the song's 40th anniversary with an archive feature on 21 May 2026.[3]

'Voyage, voyage' in films and covers

Juho Kuosmanen's film 'Compartment No. 6' (2021) uses the song three times, including over the end credits.[113][114][115] Harris Dickinson's 'Urchin' (2025) plays it over a dance scene, and the soundtrack of Enya Baroux's 'On ira' ('Bon Voyage, Marie', 2025) includes a cover by Barbara Pravi.[116][117]

  • The Mexican band Magneto's Spanish version, 'Vuela vuela', entered Billboard's Hot Latin chart at No. 29 on 2 November 1991 and reached No. 3 on 11 January 1992.[118]
  • The Japanese duo Wink released 'Eien no Ladydoll' on 24 February 1993; it peaked at No. 19 on Oricon.[119]
  • The Soviet singer Sergey Minaev recorded it as 'Вояж' on a 1990 Melodiya album.[120]
  • Kate Ryan's version, produced by 2N, came out on 6 July 2007 and reached No. 2 in Flanders, No. 6 in Spain, No. 10 in Finland, No. 11 in the Netherlands and No. 13 in Germany.[121]
  • Soap&Skin recorded it on 'Narrow' (2012) and again on 'Torso' (2024).[122][123]
  • Sirenia released a cover sung by Emmanuelle Zoldan on 10 February 2021, and Pascal Obispo recorded it on 'Standards 80' (2021).[124][125]
  • Hung Medien's chart database also lists versions by Francine Jordi, Bananarama, Alex Christensen & The Berlin Orchestra featuring Chimène, Fernando Express and others.[53][5][55]

Image and style

In 1986 she wore her short blonde hair brushed straight up, with an androgynous look and Doc Martens boots; INA noted in 2026 that the style broke with the conventions of 1980s female pop, and on television that year she joked that her hair now stood up with a single stroke of the comb.[9][3][40] She said in 2011 that she was androgynous whatever happened and generally made her own clothes.[10] By 2000 she wore her head shaved, with round glasses and loose, colourful dresses.[126]

In 2026 INA described the song's lyrics as an imaginary flight around the world, from the Amazon to European capitals and India, framed as a kind of spiritual initiation.[3] She said in 2011 that she had no religion but felt close to Buddhist philosophy, and she named soul, blues and 1970s Black music, from James Brown to Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald, along with Françoise Hardy, Barbara, Michel Jonasz and Alain Souchon among her tastes.[10]

'Voyage, voyage' in 2026

Kworb counted 337,447,411 Spotify streams for the main version of 'Voyage, voyage' on 13 October 2026, with about 255,000 a day being added, and Spotify's German daily chart had it at a peak of No. 171 on 15 October.[16][127] On 22 October 2026 Shazam placed it at No. 54 worldwide and in the top 50 of 17 countries, among them No. 8 in Germany, No. 12 in Austria and Hungary, No. 15 in Finland, No. 17 in Switzerland, No. 23 in Czechia and No. 28 in the Netherlands, but at No. 139 in France.[128][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][129]

Discography

Albums and EPs:

  • 'François' (1989, CBS; Epic in Japan).[4][69]
  • 'I Love You' (1994, Gopal / BMG France).[75]
  • 'Ses plus grands succès' (compilation, 2003, Sony Music Media).[82]
  • 'La Vie est belle' (EP, 2003, self-released).[80]
  • 'Un brin de paille' (live, with Michel Gentils, 2004).[83]
  • 'More Love & Good Vibrations' (2007, Anthology's).[85]
  • 'Le petit bisou' (with Mic-Eco, 2007).[88]
  • 'L'expérience humaine' (EP, May 2011, Akamusic). French chart No. 29.[93][72]
  • 'L'Oeuf du Dragon' (EP, 12 June 2012; album, 26 March 2013, Urgence Disk), with Operation of the Sun.[94][95]
  • 'XP2' (EP, December 2012).[130]
  • 'Noun' (2014, Urgence Disk) and 'Nexus' (30 September 2014), with Operation of the Sun.[96][131]
  • 'Un seul peuple' (23 November 2014, Urgence Disk), with Operation of the Sun.[99]
  • '2011-2015' (best-of, 18 May 2015).[132]
  • 'Guillaume' (27 October 2015, Urgence Disk); reissued as 'Desireless chante Apollinaire' (21 March 2017).[100][107]
  • 'Méditage / Relaxage' (2017, with Valfeu).[104][105]
  • 'Voyage avec Operation Of The Sun' (25 December 2022, 28 tracks).[107][108]

Singles:

  • 'Voyage, voyage' (1986, CBS). No. 1 West Germany, Austria, Norway, Spain; No. 2 France; No. 4 Switzerland; No. 9 Netherlands; No. 53 UK (1987), No. 5 UK (1988 remix).[1][4][5][7][53][55][8]
  • 'John' (1988, CBS). No. 5 France; No. 92 UK.[66][65][8]
  • 'Qui sommes-nous ?' (1989, CBS).[70]
  • 'Elle est comme les étoiles' (1990, CBS).[71]
  • 'Hari Ôm Ramakrishna' (21 February 1990, Epic International, Japan).[73]
  • 'Il dort' and 'I Love You' with Charles (1994, Gopal).[77][78]
  • 'Nul ne sait' (2003, promotional).[81]
  • 'Free Your Love', with Emilie Roye and DJ Esteban featuring Mic-Eco (2006, promotional).[86]
  • 'Tes voyages me voyagent', with Leopold Nord (2009, AKA Music).[90]
  • 'Voyage, voyage (Remix 2010)', with DJ Esteban (2010, promotional).[92]
  • 'Sois Zen', with Emvie (2012).[97][89]
  • 'Voyage, voyage (for Lili)', with Valfeu (2018).[106]
  • 'Voyage', REDLAUGH featuring Desireless (19 February 2024).[107]
  • 'VOYAGE VOYAGE', DIAZ & Desireless (11 October 2025, A+).[109][107]
  • 'Voyage Voyage (International Club Mix)' (16 January 2026).[107]

Videography

  • 'Voyage, voyage' (1986), directed by Bettina Rheims.[41][10]
  • 'L'or du Rhin' (4 March 2014) and 'Pas de sexes' (23 November 2014), directed by Samuel Maurin, with Operation of the Sun.[98][133]
  • 'Voyage, voyage' (2016), with Operation of the Sun: 4,854,761 YouTube views on 22 October 2026.[102]
  • 'Voyage, voyage (for Lili)', with Valfeu (posted 14 July 2019).[106]

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