Ruben de Carvalho

Ruben de Carvalho
ComIH
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
1995–1999
ConstituencySetúbal
Lisbon City Council member
In office
2005–2013
Portuguese Communist Party Central Committee member
In office
1997–2019
Personal details
Born
Ruben Luís Tristão de Carvalho e Silva

(1944-07-21)21 July 1944
Lisbon, Portugal
Died11 June 2019(2019-06-11) (aged 74)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political partyPortuguese Communist Party

Ruben Luís Tristão de Carvalho e Silva[1] (Lisbon, 21 July 1944 – Lisbon, 11 June 2019[2]) was a Portuguese politician, cultural organizer, historian, and journalist. He was a dissident during the Estado Novo dictatorship, a leader of the Portuguese Communist Party,[3] a member of the Assembly of the Republic,[1] a Lisbon municipal councillor and the creator of the largest political party event in Portugal, the Avante! Festival.[4]

As a journalist, Ruben de Carvalho was editor-in-chief of Vida mundial magazine during the 1960s and the weekly Avante! newspaper between April 1974 and 1995, and was an opinion writer for several newspapers, including Diário de Notícias.[5][4]

In addition to his journalistic career and political activities, he was well-known as a music-lover, in particular of the Jazz, Blues — of which he was considered an expert[5] — and Fado genres, having written several books about the latter genre.[6] His books on Fado had an outsized importance for the understanding of this musical genre.[7]

  1. ^ a b Biografia [de Ruben de Carvalho], Assembly of the Republic
  2. ^ Ruben de Carvalho (1944–2019), Antena 1, 11 June 2019
  3. ^ Peixoto, Ana Catarina (11 June 2019). "Morreu Ruben de Carvalho, histórico dirigente do PCP. Marcelo diz que "deixa um rasto de saudade"". Observador (in Portuguese). Lusa News Agency. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b Ribeiro, Ana Maria (12 June 2019). "Ruben de Carvalho, o homem que criou a festa do 'Avante!'". Correio da Manhã (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Morreu Ruben de Carvalho, o comunista melómano que gostava de blues". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Lusa News Agency. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  6. ^ Portuguese Communist Party Central Committee Secretariat (11 June 2019). "Faleceu Ruben de Carvalho". Portuguese Communist Party (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Ruben de Carvalho". Fado Museum. Retrieved 6 December 2023.