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Ceci Bastida

musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ27581856 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ceci Bastida is a Mexican singer-songwriter.

Ceci was born in Tijuana, Baja California, México. and is well known for playing keyboards and vocals in Mexico's punk rock band Tijuana No! at the age of 15. Bastida also played keyboards for former Tijuana No! band member Julieta Venegas and is currently a key member of Mexrrissey, Mexican tribute band to The Smiths.

Solo career

Tijuana No! was later disbanded in 2002, both lead singer Julieta Venegas and Ceci Bastida continued to work on personal projects. Ceci played keyboards in Julieta Venegas band and later left in 2008. In 2010 she released her first album, Veo La Marea.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ceci Bastida” is musician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ceci, Bastida and musician, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2008, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. For this dossier, Ceci, Bastida and musician is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “musician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27581856. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2008 and 2010.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ceci Bastida”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ceci Bastida primary sources, Ceci Bastida archive and Ceci research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ceci Bastida”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ceci Bastida” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.