At-Risk Youths Find Direction in a Community Marching Band

Sounds of Success in Palm Beach County, Florida, offers opportunities for growth and belonging

Antoine Miller, bandleader and founder of Sounds of Success Community Marching Band, preparing to perform at a fashion show in Royal Palm Beach, Fla. Courtesy of Dreamlite Media

When the Sounds of Success Community Marching Band performs, don’t expect the usual. You won’t hear “Stars and Stripes Forever” or any John Philip Sousa composition for that matter. There won’t even be the high school band staple, “The Girl from Ipanema.”

Instead, the band performs original compositions by its founder and leader, Antoine Miller.