A listener on Radio Shuffle recently caught "Voyage, Voyage" by Desireless playing on Radio Infinity Classic, and the song is a small lesson in how far a classic hit can travel. Sung entirely in French by Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop under the stage name Desireless, it still managed to reach number one across Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Israel, Norway and Yugoslavia in the mid-80s, selling more than five million copies without a single English lyric. Decades later and a continent away, it is still finding new ears on a small webradio stream out of Santa Fe Province, Argentina.
Broadcasting From a Town You Will Not Find on Most Maps
Radio Infinity Classic streams out of the Arroyo Seco and Pueblo Esther area, a pair of neighboring small towns in Santa Fe Province, roughly 20 minutes south of Rosario along Argentina's Paraná River corridor, according to station directory listings. It is the kind of hyper-local operation that rarely makes international radio news, yet it has built a social media presence on Facebook and Instagram and kept a 24 hour stream running for an audience well beyond its own town limits.
Three Decades, One Mood
The station's tag list reads like a tour through the second half of the 20th century: 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s hits, adult contemporary, disco and retro R&B all sharing the same rotation. That range lets it move from the French-language eurodisco of Desireless to American R&B and Argentine-friendly adult contemporary without the whiplash a stricter single-decade format would create. It is built less around a specific scene and more around a mood, the easy, familiar comfort of songs that have already proven themselves over thirty-plus years.
A Local Station With a Global Jukebox
What makes a station like Radio Infinity Classic interesting is not a dramatic founding story, it is the quieter fact that small towns across Santa Fe Province can run a station pulling from the same international hit parade that soundtracked discotheques in Paris, Berlin and Buenos Aires alike. Desireless never sang a word of English and still topped charts from Scandinavia to the Middle East; a classic-hits station in a town of a few thousand people can play that same song today and it lands exactly the same way it did in 1986.
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