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Ven Junto a Mi

1994 song by Claudio Bermúdez

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ104822532 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Ven Junto a Mi" ("Come Next to Me") is a written and performed by Mexican singer Claudio Bermúdez on his 1994 debut album Como Aire Fresco The album marked his career as a soloist following his departure from Timbiriche in 1991. It was produced by Spanish composer Rafael Pérez-Botija and released as a single in 1994. The song became a number one hit on the Billboard Latin Pop Airplay chart in 1995 where it spent seven weeks on top of the chart. It was recognized as one of best-performing songs of the year at the 1996 ASCAP Latin Awards. Despite its success, it became his only number one song on the chart and Bermúdez later became a composer and record producer for other artists. The song has been covered by Victor Roque y su Gran Manzana, Johnny Rivera, and Encadenado.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ven Junto a Mi” is 1994 song by Claudio Bermúdez. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Junto, song and Claudio, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1991, 1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Junto, song and Claudio is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1994 song by Claudio Bermúdez” 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

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104822532. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994, 1991, 1995 and 1996.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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.

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Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ven Junto a Mi”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ven Junto a Mi primary sources, Ven Junto a Mi archive and Junto 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ven Junto a Mi” 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.