Ashley Parker Angel is an American musician and actor who rose to prominence as a member of the boy band O-Town.

Parker Angel has acted in several Broadway productions since 2007, and most recently appeared in Wicked as the lead male character Fiyero Tigelaar.

He was named after the character Ashley Wilkes,[1] from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, and its subsequent film adaptation, which was a favorite of his mother.

[3] In 2000 Ashley Parker Angel achieved fame on the hit ABC series Making the Band, which tracked the formation of a pop music group.

Weekly, viewers saw Parker Angel, after first being plucked from tens of thousands of other auditionees,[5] survive each stage of the selection process to become one of the "final five" members of the new vocal group O-Town.

[9][non-primary source needed] Near the end of the third season, viewers watched O-Town striving to take their careers to the next level, writing their own music, earning the respect of industry peers, and marketing themselves as more than a "boy band."

[11]In November 2014,[12] Parker Angel joined the globally award-winning touring version of the musical Wicked, playing the part of the male lead character Fiyero Tigelaar.

[15] As of 2012, Parker has been working with Xandy Barry on a new joint band project titled MOA standing for Mansions of Arcadia.

"[18] In 2014, Parker Angel confirmed that he was songwriting whilst being signed to EMI Publishing, he will be releasing a second album in the future,[19] although the status of Mansions of Arcadia is currently unknown due to their official website and social pages no longer being active or online.