Mat Weddle (born January 3, 1983), better known by his stage and recording name Obadiah Parker, is a singer-songwriter from Scottsdale, Arizona.
1", as well as his first full-length, studio album, "The Siren and The Saint", recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with Grammy award-winning producer Mitch Dane.
The performance was recorded at a local Open mic night, then obtained by a fan who mixed it with the original Outkast music video and uploaded it to YouTube.
The cover version of "Hey Ya" earned nationwide media attention and radio play, including The Howard Stern Show and Jeopardy!.
[5] In 2009, Sam Lloyd of The Blanks (the actor who plays Ted Buckland) also covered the song on an episode of Scrubs entitled My Soul On Fire, Part 2.