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.
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.
He belonged to a family of great literary figures, including his uncle António Aurélio Gonçalves, his aunt Orlanda Amarílis, 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.
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.