Matthew Albert Costa (born June 16, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter from Huntington Beach, California, United States.

[1] Matt Costa, who is of Portuguese descent, states that his father works in the airline business.

These were later combined and mixed by Phil Ek to form Costa's first full-length CD entitled Songs We Sing.

He has since toured with Modest Mouse, Oasis, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, G. Love & Special Sauce, and Death Cab for Cutie.

He has also contributed to the Jack Johnson and Friends Curious George soundtrack; his track is entitled "Lullaby".

Costa has also toured extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Asia and South America.

On July 31, 2007, he released a song titled "If You Took To Me" as part of the environmentally minded polar bear documentary Arctic Tale and its soundtrack.

Ending 2016, Matt released a small bunch of songs recorded live when he had gone on a trip to London.