Obadiah Parker

Obadiah Parker, born Mat Weddle on January 3, 1983, in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a singer-songwriter from Arizona. He began his musical career as part of a three-person band with Jessie Young and Daniel Zehring, whom he met at a local church youth group. After the band's split, Weddle retained the name Obadiah Parker for his solo career, later releasing his first full-length studio album, The Siren And The Saint, recorded in Nashville with Grammy-winning producer Mitch Dane. His breakthrough came with a viral YouTube video of his acoustic cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya!," which had amassed over 8 million views by 2011 and reached Number 1 on the iTunes Singer-Songwriter Charts in the UK, France, and other countries.