[2] Cavalcante began his career in 1976, performing in bars in his home state of Ceará doing humor skits and impressions of various artists.

With the program's end, he began to participate in another of Chico's shows: Escolinha do Professor Raimundo, where he played the drunkard João Canabrava, a character created by himself.

[7] Unsatisfied with his treatment by Globo, Cavalcante resigned from the station and signed with TV Record, where he presented his own program, Show do Tom, from 2004 to 2011.

[8] In 2013, Cavalcante and his family moved to the United States,[9] where he worked on the short film Pizza Me, Mafia, directed by Gui Pereira.

[12] Since 2016, Cavalcante presented at Globosat's cable channel Multishow in the shows #PartiuShopping and Multi Tom, where he performed as several characters, among them Tomsonaro (an impression of president Jair Bolsonaro).