Carlos Filipe Fernandes da Silva Gonçalves (born October 12, 1950) is a Capeverdean journalist and an investigator, ex-director of the Portuguese station
Rádio Comercial
Rádio Comercial is a commercial radio station in Portugal aimed at young people and adults. It has a broad format including contemporary, pop and rock music. It is among the most listened to radio stations in the country.
History
Rádio Comercia ...
. Carlos Gonçalves has made interviews, conversations and meetings and found written documents by different authors, mainly those from the late 20th century on
Cape Verdean Music.
[Information on Carlos Filipe Gonçalves at the Barros Brito's homepage](_blank)
Biography
Gonçalves was born in
, capital of the
island of São Vicente. He was the son of Arnaldo da Silva Gonçalves and
Ivone Ramos. He belonged to a family of great literary figures, including his uncle
António Aurélio Gonçalves
António Aurélio Gonçalves, better known as Nhô Roque (25 September 1901 – 30 September 1984), was a Cape Verdean writer, critic, historian and professor.
Life
Gonçalves was born in the city of Mindelo, capital of the island of São Vicen ...
, his aunt
Orlanda Amarílis
Orlanda Amarílis Lopes Rodrigues Fernandes Ferreira, known as Orlanda Amarílis (8 October 1924 – 1 February 2014) was a Cape Verdean writer. She is considered to be a noteworthy writer of fiction whose main literary themes include perspectiv ...
, and his maternal grandfather Armando Napoleão Rodrigues Fernandes, who published the first creole language dictionary in Cape Verde title ''O dialecto crioulo — Léxico do dialecto crioulo do Arquipélago de Cabo Verde'' (1969) and
Baltasar Lopes da Silva
Baltasar Lopes da Silva ( Caleijão, São Nicolau, 23 April 1907 - Lisbon, Portugal, 28 May 1989) was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he w ...
.
Work
In 2006, he published ''
Kap Verd Band'' totalling 250 pages. He made several interviews, conversations and meetings and found written documents by different authors, mainly those from the late 20th century on Cape Verdean Music. It included studies on all the Capeverdean music genres, notably
colá, festa da bandeira,
batuque,
tabanka and more. He also gives a description on musical instruments which formed a part of Capeverdean music, ensembles, voices, discography, birth of the editors and queen of its music. He wrote the edition with a large graphic quantity. It was published by the Institute of the
National Historic Archives and has been distributed and marketed by the
National Library
A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant wo ...
Institute. The book has 250 pages widely illustrated with some dozens of photos, some historic and rare.
References
External links
Information on Carlos Filipe Gonçalves at the Barros Brito's homepage
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Cape Verdean male writers
Cape Verdean journalists
Living people
1950 births
People from Mindelo