Clayton Nunes, a versatile musician, has produced and arranged numerous albums and composed hundreds of soundtracks for videos. His client list includes names like Lenardo Gonçalves, Laura Morena, Elfred Deynes, Eliel Oliveira, Wintley Phipps, Washington Adventist University, General Conference of SDA, Globo TV and Hope Channel.
Nunes was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Clayton was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He began his music career at age seven when he was invited to perform one of his own compositions at a school recital. By sixteen, he had joined the music group Metal and Cia as their tuba player, where he also arranged and produced two albums. At twenty, he won the prestigious Nascente prize for composition from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and became director of the orchestra and band at São Paulo Adventist University (UNASP), a position he held for six years.
Clayton graduated in 2000 with a degree in Music Education from the School of Communications and Arts at USP, studying piano with renowned teachers Liliane Vincenzo, Ana Maria Gorski Damaceno, and João Carlos Martins. He also earned a degree in Audio Technology from the Audio and Video Institute of São Paulo the following year. In 2002, the Second Southwest Division of the Brazilian Army honored him as an "Amigo do Exército" ("Friend of the Army") after adopting one of his compositions as their official hymn.
In 2003, Clayton moved to the United States to become the music minister for the Capital Brazilian Temple in Washington, D.C. That same year, he also launched Clayton Nunes Music Solutions as a side business. In 2011, he attended the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program in Seattle, WA. He later became Creative Director at Flip TV, where he led design projects such as the Ellen G. White Estate Visitor Center in Silver Spring, MD.
In 2016, Clayton relocated to Colorado to serve as Marketing Director at Eden Valley Institute of Wellness for three years, before transitioning to Vice President for another five.
Since July 2024, Clayton has served as Assistant Director for Digital Evangelism with the Ellen G. White Estate team.
Clayton is also a husband to Juliana Carvalho Nunes and father to two children.