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!
[4] As a journalist, Ruben de Carvalho was editor-in-chief of Vida mundial magazine during the 1960s and the weekly Avante!
[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.