LISTENING

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COLLECTION

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CARE

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LISTENING ⋆ COLLECTION ⋆ CARE ⋆


  • Founded in 2018, Black Girls Love Vinyl (BGLV) is a cultural platform built around the belief that records are expressions of identity, memory, taste, and history. BGLV centers Black women within vinyl culture by creating opportunities to collect, listen, exchange knowledge, and engage with the people and stories behind recorded sound. Through original programming, creative work, and research, BGLV contributes to a broader understanding of how records are collected, experienced, and carried forward.

HERITAGE

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LINEAGE

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LEGACY

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HERITAGE ⋆ LINEAGE ⋆ LEGACY ⋆

  • 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 a way to honor lineage, memory, and personal discovery. Through intentional listening and storytelling, we connect personal collections to shared cultural histories while creating space for new stories, perspectives, and possibilities.

    Our vision is to build a lasting body of cultural knowledge around Black women’s musical experiences—one that is celebrated, shared, and carried forward with care. Through collecting, creative collaboration, research, and sustained community, BGLV helps ensure Black women’s voices remain present, valued, and influential in the continuing story of recorded sound.

COLLECTING

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RESEARCH

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CURATION

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COLLECTING ⋆ RESEARCH ⋆ CURATION ⋆

  • BGLV develops original programming, experiences, and cultural projects exploring Black women’s relationship to vinyl, recorded sound, and music history. Our work spans intentional listening experiences, artist and collector storytelling, editorial and multimedia projects, community gatherings, curated collections and crates, playlists, cultural exchange, and partnerships across music and cultural spaces.

    Through this work, BGLV creates opportunities to discover, contextualize, and share the people, records, and stories that shape vinyl culture by building a living body of cultural knowledge around vinyl records as vessels for memory, identity, history, and connection. Inquire here

  • 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

  • BGLV brings a deep understanding of records, artists, audiences, and the histories that connect them—helping partners create work that is thoughtful, culturally informed, and rooted in the richness of Black music culture. Inquire here

STEWARDSHIP

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PRACTICE

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COMMITMENT

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STEWARDSHIP ⋆ PRACTICE ⋆ COMMITMENT ⋆

  • 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’s professional practice is grounded in music supervision, clearance, and licensing. Through BGLV, she has opened vinyl DJ sets for BADBADNOTGOOD, Stone Island x Charlotte Day Wilson,participated in speaking engagements across New York City and Houston, and continues to build a platform that keeps Black women at the center of vinyl and music culture.