Guyton was 5 years old when he sang his first solo, where his father, once a jazz drummer, embarked on his first assignment as minister at Child’s Park United Methodist Church. It was here, deep within the often violent inner city, surrounded by gospel at church and old school jazz at home, where
he would find his first musical influences. Despite the sporadic gang fights that broke out in the school yard across the street from their home and the perfectly round bullet hole in their living room window, music abounded at all times. Poppi would setup his drums and crank the stereo and Guyton would carry around his radio transmitter microphone. (One of many he went through as a child.)
At age thirteen, he took a year of piano lessons, with the encouragement and support of his parents, Al
though he chafed under the rigid and restrictive structure of lessons and didn’t practice as he should have, he still jumped from John Thompson’s Book I, to Piano Literature Volume III in one year’s time. Still interested in singing more than piano, he quit the lessons and turned his focus to an increasing number of appearances in churches. At the age of 16, after singing in many wedding ceremonies as a favor to one or more people, someone finally handed him a check for his performance. After many years of free performances, Guyton had started on the path to making music his profession.
Not wanting to teach or be a church musician, (and hating the regimen of school) he rejected college and ventured out into the world, supporting himself through an array of creative jobs. Always keeping close to music, he decided to pick up the piano again, this time on his own. During this return to his love of piano, he accidentally discovered he had a knack for writing. 
At 23, Guyton met his mentor, Michael Coffman. Michael took him in and taught him many old school jazz standards, introducing him to singing in country clubs, where he sang to Michael’s skilled accompaniment on piano, Michael and Guyton teamed up to play some of the most prestigious clubs in North Florida, including Sawgrass, The Plantation, and the Ritz Carlton at Amelia Island.
Under Michael’s tutelage on performance and his crash course on music theory, Guyton developed a strong ability to sight read music and improvise when the situation demanded it.
At 24, he moved to Atlanta to forge a life in a bigger city. At that time, there was no such genre as “Singer Songwriter”, so finding a niche for himself proved difficult. Singer songwriters were often thought of as folk artists, but hardcore folk fans viewed him as too “pop” and pop fans thought of him as too folk. Main stream music seemed consumed with cookie cutter artists without an identity. Too close to his art, Guyton rejected the notion of simplifying his talent in order to conform to a formulaic version of his voice or style of writing just to get lost in a sea of boy band acts. Instead, he played a wide variety of sometimes off-beat venues, some taking him in and some throwing him out. Some places featured him, where they had never had live music before.
Along the way, he studied voice at the nationally known Jan Smith Vocal Studio, where a wide variety of well-known singers such as Usher, Rob Thomas, India Aria and Ciara have studied.
As with any true artist, the ebb and flow of life’s influences, drifting in and out in concert with milestones and life changes, major and minor, have sculpted a style and body of work which is unique and true. His 4 octave range voice possesses power, precision, control and clarity. His melodic piano styles range from intense classical influences, to quirky theatrical flair. His shows consist of original material interspersed with new and unique takes on familiar songs and his own renditions of classics.