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LISTENING ⋆ PRESERVATION ⋆ CARE ⋆
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Black Girls Love Vinyl (BGLV) a mission-driven cultural platform and archive dedicated to preserving the art and love of collecting vinyl records, centering the relationship Black women have with music. Founded in 2018, BGLV creates intentional spaces for listening, storytelling, and discovery, uplifting Black women as collectors, curators, and cultural contributors within music history.Rooted in preservation and community, BGLV amplifies Black women’s voices within vinyl and listening culture through curated programs and initiatives. We approach records as vessels of memory and identity, connecting personal collections and listening practices to a shared cultural lineage.
HERITAGE
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LINEAGE
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LEGACY
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HERITAGE ⋆ LINEAGE ⋆ LEGACY ⋆
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Black Girls Love Vinyl envisions a future where Black women lead and shape vinyl, listening, and music culture. We imagine a world where Black women are recognized as collectors, curators, storytellers, and keepers of sonic memory, whose contributions are central to music history.
Within our community, record collecting becomes an act of preservation that honors lineage, memory, and personal discovery. Through intentional listening and storytelling, we connect personal collections to shared cultural histories while shaping what comes next.
Our vision is to build a lasting record of Black women’s musical experiences that is preserved, celebrated, and carried forward with care. Through archival stewardship, creative collaboration, and sustained community, BGLV ensures Black women’s voices remain present, valued, and remembered across generations.
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ARCHIVE ⋆ RESEARCH ⋆ CURATION ⋆
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BGLV produces and owns a growing body of native programming designed to center Black women's relationship to vinyl culture and music history.
Deluxe Edition — A vinyl listening series rooted in Hi-Fi listening bar tradition, transforming album listening into an act of cultural narration across Los Angeles and New York City.
In Compilation Of… — An intimate series where artists, musicians, and public figures open up their collections and the stories behind them.
A Seat In Her Collection — A blog, video series, and podcast spotlighting Black women whose lives, work, and identities are shaped by vinyl and recorded sound.
Record Shop Meetups + Pop-Ups — Community gatherings rooted in the record shop as a cultural space.
Audiophile Immersive Experiences — Sound-centered events designed for deep, intentional listening.
Cultural Exchange + Fieldwork — Explorations of vinyl culture across cities and countries including Brazil, connecting spaces and communities through sound.
We have also contributed to panels and conversations, sourced music material through curated crates and collections, created vinyl content, developed playlists, promoted artist events, and served as a community partner to labels and music organizations — showing up where vinyl culture is respected. Inquire here
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BGLV partners with aligned and knowledgeable brands, labels, cultural institutions, artists, public figures, and community organizations who respect our mission and share our deep commitment to music as history, identity, and lived experience. Inquire here
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BGLV creates cultural experiences, curated programming, and creative content rooted in Black music history and vinyl culture for aligned brands, partners, and communities.
Event Programming Curated and hosted events, listening sessions, panels, community activations, installations, record shop pop-ups, and meetups — available as third-party engagements or fully produced BGLV native events.
Creative Staffing + DJ Curation Music-forward experiences anchored by intentional curation, live vinyl DJ sets, residencies, and creative on-site presence.
Music Curation + Playlisting Custom playlist and sonic direction for brands, labels, retail spaces, and campaigns.
Advertising, Promotion + Content Newsletter exclusive features, branded content, UGC posts, native campaign assets, and promotional support for brands, labels, artists, and community organizations — whether you're looking to reach BGLV's audience, amplify an external event or release, or gain visibility within our community.
Music Research + Consulting Drawing on BGLV's growing vinyl archive collection of 8+ years and our founder's background in sync licensing and music supervision, we provide music research, sourcing, clearance support, and cultural accuracy consultation for projects such as film, TV, and branded storytelling content.
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STEWARDSHIP ⋆ PRACTICE ⋆ COMMITMENT ⋆
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Born on the North Side of St. Louis, Missouri, Alexandria Sade’s relationship to music was shaped early through family and community. She grew up immersed in her aunt’s soul and oldies, her father’s hip-hop and electronic records, and her mother’s love for jazz and the music of Sade, her namesake.
Alongside listening, she studied dance, flute, and piano, balanced a deep commitment to tennis, and remained actively engaged in St. Louis’s Black community. Early recognition for leadership and service shaped her enduring commitment to cultural connection and community building.
A proud alumna of Hampton University, Alexandria has been a music collector since childhood, starting with her CD collection and various music ephemera to becoming a dedicated vinyl record collector in 2013 while exploring music production during her undergraduate years, gradually developing deep expertise and a personal archive.
Now based in Brooklyn, NY, Alexandria serves on the music supervision team at Cue The Creatives, with IMDb credits on Kevin Hart's BET+ animated series Lil Kev and documentary Deepfaking Sam Altman, both with Hartbeat Productions. Through BGLV, she has opened vinyl DJ sets for BADBADNOTGOOD and Stone Island x Charlotte Day Wilson, spoken on panels across New York City and Houston, and continues to build a platform that ensures Black women's voices remain present, valued, and remembered.