In the nearly 10 years since Sons of Serendip began, the classical crossover quartet has performed several high-profile gigs.
The group, which finished fourth on Season 9 of “America’s Got Talent” in 2014, returns to Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts in University Park on Jan. 20.
“It was an incredible audience that showed up with fantastic energy. It was one of our favorite performances. It was a lot of fun,” said Sons of Serendip lead vocalist Micah Christian about performing 50 Years of Wonder: A Tribute to Stevie Wonder in 2018.
This time Christian and fellow original members harpist Mason Morton and pianist Cordaro Rodriguez perform with cellist Nathaniel Taylor, who joined Sons of Serendip in 2022 after Kendall Ramseur left.
Sons of Serendip, which plans to release a single in January, will draw from three of its albums — 2015’s self-titled debut, 2017’s “Life + Love” and 2020’s “Mosaic” — for the Southland winter tour stop.
“We’re bringing some new music and we’re excited to reconnect with this audience,” said Christian of Los Angeles.
“We’ll be doing a number of songs they know and love from a number of different genres as well as some originals. We’re going to be sprinkling in some storytelling. The whole goal is to create an experience for the audience. It’ll be very communal as well.”
Formed in February 2014 to compete on “America’s Got Talent,” Sons of Serendip were introduced to a national TV audience with an audition performance of Keane’s “Somewhere Only We Know.”
“When we first went onstage we didn’t know exactly what to expect because it was our first public performance in front of an audience as a group. To see how the audience responded to us was a beautiful surprise,” Christian said.
“It gave us a chance to reach a wider audience in a short period of time. Since then we’ve been able to build a career. It’s really what helped launch everything for us. I don’t think we would be able to do this full time if it weren’t for that particular moment of being on ‘America’s Got Talent.'”
Things came full circle when Sons of Serendip were among 50 acts from “Got Talent” shows worldwide invited to compete on Season 1 of “America’s Got Talent: The Champions” and performed “Somewhere Only We Know.”
“That experience was meaningful because it gave us an opportunity to show the growth from when we first started to that point,” Christian said.
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Sons of Serendip have collaborated with Boston Pops, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cynthia Erivo and performed for Oprah Winfrey’s 2020 Vision Tour’s closing celebration and as U.S. representatives at Expo 2020 Dubai in 2022 in the United Arab Emirates.
Christian cited Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” as a favorite song to perform.
“It has some beautiful, rich and deep lyrics. It connects to the spiritual side of things too,” he said.
‘When I approach music I’m thinking of it also in those ways as well, like how to come from a deeper place. That’s one of those songs everybody knows and so many people love. It’s a way to bring us all together as human beings.”
Sons of Serendip
When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20
Where: Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts, 1 University Parkway, University Park
Tickets: $34-$60
Information: 708-235-2222; centertickets.net
Jessi Virtusio is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.