Actor, writer, circus artist and researcher. He and his brother Henrique studied elementary school with their Spanish grandmother Conchita Teresa de Canales, a descendant of the Canales family, related to the well known Brazilian actor Oscarito. Afterwards he attended junior highschool at Grupo Escolar Portugal and highschool at Colégio Oswaldo Cruz, both in São Paulo. In 1973, he earned a Bachelor Degree in Literature at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, United States and in 1975 a Master in Arts degree. Luís is the son of the circus artists Henrique Canales and Santina Braguim Canales and belongs to the third generation of the Canales family. His paternal grandparents were the founders of Circo Teatro Oni. When he was a teenager he acted as a clown and actor in theater plays in the Teatro da Juventude and participated in the program "Almoço com as estrelinhas". In 1975 he was invited to teach Spanish Language at Kyoto University of Forein Studies in Japan, where he lived until 2015. He is the author of the books Gina Lolobrigida and Whip, Love and Videotape: The Mith of Japanese Education. Now his present project is the story of the Canales family.