Shaolin

Francisco Jozenilton Veloso (May 8, 1971 — January 14, 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 Coremas, Paraíba. He started his career at the Teatro Municipal Severino Cabral in Campina Grande. He also worked as a presenter on Rádio Campina Grande and drew cartoons for the newspapers A Palavra, Jornal da Paraíba and Revista Nordeste.

In December 1994 he married Laudiceia Veloso. The couple have 2 children.

His best-known shows are Domingão do Faustão; A Praça É Nossa; Show do Tom; and most recently Tudo è Possível ("All is possible") with Ana Hickmann, in which he satirizes Brazilian celebrities, for example Leonardo, Joelma (singer in the duo Banda Calypso) and Zezé di Camargo.

On January 19, 2011, Shaolin was seriously injured in a traffic accident when his car collided with a truck in Campina Grande on the highway BR-230. Until May he remained in a comain intensive care, 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 eyelid helped by a machine.

On January 14 2016, Shaolin died after a heart attack.