Francisco Jozenilton Veloso (8 May 1971 – 14 January 2016), better known by his pseudonym and stage name Shaolin, was a Brazilian cartoonist, caricaturist, humorist, comedian and media presenter.

Biography

He was born in

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, Paraíba. He started his career at the ''Teatro Municipal Severino Cabral'' in

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. He also worked as a presenter on ''Rádio Campina Grande'' and drew cartoons for the newspapers ''A Palavra'', ''Jornal da Paraíba'' and ''Revista Nordeste''.

Shows

His best-known shows are ''

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'', '' Show do Tom''; and most recently ''

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'' ("All is possible") with Ana Hickmann, in which he satirized Brazilian celebrities, for example Leonardo, Joelma (singer in the duo Banda Calypso) and Zezé di Camargo.

Accident

On 19 January 2011, Shaolin was seriously injured in a traffic accident when his car collided with a truck in

on the highway

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. Until May he remained in a coma in

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, and then left hospital to go home although he had not recovered from his injuries. In September 2012 he began communicating again using movements of his

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helped by a machine.

Family

In December 1994 he married Laudiceia Veloso, with whom he had two children.

Death

On 14 January 2016, Shaolin died following a

myocardial infarction A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when Ischemia, blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle. The most common symptom ...

References

External links

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Shaolin's Twitter
People from Paraíba Brazilian magazine cartoonists Brazilian caricaturists Brazilian journalists Brazilian humorists Disease-related deaths in Paraíba 1971 births 2016 deaths Brazilian male comedians Brazilian sketch comedians {{cartoonist-stub