Shaolin
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.
Shaolin

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- Name
- Shaolin
- Birth Name
- Francisco Jozenilton Veloso
- Born
- 8 May 1971
- Birthplace
- Coremas, Paraíba, Brazil
- Died
- 14 January 2016
- Place of death
- Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil
- Full name
- Francisco Jozenilton Veloso.
- Nationality
- Brazil.
- Occupation
- comedian, radio personality, actor, cartoonist and comics artist.
- Languages
- Portuguese.
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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.
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• Name — Shaolin • Birth Name — Francisco Jozenilton Veloso • Born — 8 May 1971 • Birthplace — Coremas, Paraíba, Brazil • Died — 14 January 2016 • Place of death — Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil • Genre — Satire • Notable Works — Cartoonist, caricaturist, journalist and writer
Biography
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.
Shows
Shows
section His best-known shows are Domingão do Faustão, Show do Tom and later Tudo é Possível ("All is possible"), with Ana Hickmann, in which he satirized Brazilian celebrities such as Leonardo, Joelma (singer in the duo Banda Calypso) and Zezé di Camargo. • Illustration — Shaolin and his friend Tiririca
Accident
Accident
On 19 January 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 coma in intensive care, and then left the 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.
Family
Family
In December 1994, he married Laudiceia Veloso, with whom he had two children.
Death
Death
On 14 January 2016, Shaolin died following a myocardial infarction.

Brazilian comic artists Tiririca and Shaolin).
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Coremas.
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Campina Grande.
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- 1.Humorista Shaolin morre em Campina Grande. Acervo. 2023-05-06.
- 2.Shaolin: A mundiça continua , auniao.pb.gov.br. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- 3.Shaolin.
- 4.Top 10: acidentes famosos
- 5.Humorista Shaolin sofre grave acidente de carro em Campina Grande (PB). Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- 6.Shaolin muda da UTI para quarto para evitar infecção, diz mulher do humorista , noticias.r7.com. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- 7.Após ganhar aparelho que lê movimento dos olhos, Shaolin volta a conversar com a família , noticias.r7.com. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- 8.Morre humorista paraibano Shaolin. A União - Jornal, Editora e Gráfica.
- 9.G1 Paraíba. Humorista Shaolin morre em Campina Grande. 14 January 2016.
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