LISTENING
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PRESERVATION
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CARE
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LISTENING ⋆ PRESERVATION ⋆ CARE ⋆
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Black Girls Love Vinyl (BGLV) is a mission-driven cultural platform and archive dedicated to honoring the relationship Black women have with music through the material and sonic culture of vinyl records. Founded in 2018, BGLV creates intentional spaces for listening, storytelling, and discovery—centering Black women as collectors, curators, and cultural contributors within music history.Rooted in preservation, research, and community engagement, BGLV amplifies Black women’s voices across vinyl and audiophile culture through curated programs, archival initiatives, original content, and collaborative projects. Through partnerships and professional collaborations, we explore vinyl records as vessels of memory, identity, and heritage—connecting personal listening practices to a broader 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 every facet of music, vinyl, and audiophile culture. We imagine a world in which Black women’s roles as collectors, curators, sonic memory workers, and storytellers are fully recognized and honored as central contributors to musical history.
Within our community, vinyl functions as a living archive. Record collecting becomes an act of cultural preservation that honors lineage, memory, and personal discovery. Through intentional listening and storytelling, we create connections that root us in heritage while actively shaping a forward looking cultural legacy.
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 engagement, BGLV ensures that Black women’s voices and contributions to music culture are respected, remembered, and passed on for generations to come.
ARCHIVE
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RESEARCH
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CURATION
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ARCHIVE ⋆ RESEARCH ⋆ CURATION ⋆
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At BGLV, we develop cultural programming, archival initiatives, and creative services rooted in sound, storytelling, and material culture. Our work bridges vinyl-based listening practices with research, strategy, and community engagement, creating meaningful impact across cultural spaces, brand partnerships, and public-facing programs.
BGLV approaches each project with care, research, and cultural responsibility. Our work is collaborative and context-driven, shaped by archival practice, intentional listening, and long-term stewardship rather than one-off execution.
Our programming includes facilitated listening sessions with artists, musicians, DJs, and public figures through the Deluxe Edition series, collection showcase through In Compilation Of…, audiophile immersion experiences, record shop meetups, international cultural exchanges and research-driven archival projects. Alongside this work, BGLV stewards a growing archive of vinyl records and ephemera that document rare, overlooked, and essential contributions within Black music history.
Portions of BGLV’s programming and services generate documentation that contributes to ongoing archival research and the expanding BGLV Collections.
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BGLV collaborates with artists, public figures, music labels, cultural institutions, brands, and community partners whose values align with preservation, equity, and cultural care within music and sound.
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Branded vinyl DJ experiences and listening activations
Creative direction and cultural consulting
Creative strategy and project development
Content creation and visual storytelling
Archival research, documentation, and curation
Event curation and experiential programming
Social media and digital campaign development
Brand partnerships and campaign collaborations
Music supervision and Music research consulting
STEWARDSHIP
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PRACTICE
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COMMITMENT
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STEWARDSHIP ⋆ PRACTICE ⋆ COMMITMENT ⋆
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Alexandria Sade was born on the North Side of St. Louis, Missouri, where her relationship to music was shaped early through family and community. Her earliest listening memories began with her aunt’s soulful collection of oldies, while her father introduced her to hip-hop and electronic music. Her mother’s love for jazz and the timeless sound of Sade, her namesake, added elegance and emotional depth to her musical foundation.
Alongside listening, Alexandria 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 helped shape her enduring commitment to cultural connection and community building.
A proud alumna of Hampton University, Alexandria began collecting records and exploring music production during her undergraduate years. She holds a bachelor’s degree in life science, with academic training grounded in observation, systems thinking, and research methodology. Rather than pursuing a traditional scientific career path, she followed her creative instincts, relocating to Los Angeles where she became a signed model and immersed herself more fully in music, culture, and archival curiosity.
In 2018, she founded Black Girls Love Vinyl, initially showcasing her personal collection throughout Los Angeles and seeking community with other Black women who shared a commitment to music preservation through collecting and archiving.
Now based in Brooklyn, NY, Alexandria’s work spans marketing, sync licensing, operations management, and music supervision, grounding her creative practice within the broader music industry ecosystem. Through BGLV, she bridges listening culture, archival stewardship, and cultural strategy, positioning vinyl as a vessel for memory, lineage, and identity.
With a long-term vision for BGLV as a global cultural platform and archive, Alexandria remains committed to preservation as an active practice. Her work centers the care, documentation, and continuation of Black women’s musical histories, ensuring their stories, collections, and contributions to recorded sound are carried forward across generations.