Actor, clown, violinist, and tv presenter and director. He is the son of Albert Canales and Conchita Teresa de Canales and comes from the second generation of the Canales family. After he was born, his parents were contracted to work in Argentina, where he and his brother, Roberto, attended school in Buenos Ayres. At seventeen Henrique moved back to Brazil and later married the artist Santina Braguim Canales, in the city of Matão, São Paulo.