BGLV
Black Girls Love Vinyl (BGLV) is a community and cultural platform dedicated to celebrating Black women and their relationship with vinyl records. Founded in 2018, BGLV creates spaces for storytelling, discovery, and appreciation of music through all facets of honoring the format of music on vinyl records. The platform connects collectors, music lovers, and industry professionals through intentionally curated experiences.
At its core, BGLV is about preserving musical history, amplifying Black women’s voices in vinyl and audiophile culture, while fostering a deeper connection to music as both an art form and a cultural archive. Through events, discussions, archiving, projects and content, BGLV highlights the personal and collective significance of records, creating a space where Black women can explore and share their love for vinyl.
OUR VISION
Black Girls Love Vinyl envisions a world where Black women are at the forefront across all genres of music, audiophile, and vinyl culture, recognized as collectors, curators, memory workers, and storytellers shaping musical history.
For our community, record collecting is way more than a hobby—it’s cultural preservation, storytelling, and community-building. Many of us inherit records from family and loved ones, making collecting deeply personal. Beyond nostalgia, vinyl fosters discovery, allowing us to engage with music intentionally and celebrate our Black cultural heritage.
BGLV is about legacy, identity, reflection, and connection. Through intentional programming, we amplify Black women’s voices using vinyl as both a bold format and a statement piece, ensuring our history is honored, archived, and passed down for generations.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Born on the Northside of St. Louis, MO, Alexandria Sade’s musical journey began with her aunt’s soulful oldies. As a child, she would eagerly wait for her aunt to come home, then pull her toward her cherished album collection. Her father’s eclectic taste introduced her to West Coast hip-hop like DJ Quik and Digital Underground as well as the electronic grooves of Kraftwerk. Her mother’s love for smooth jazz and the timeless sounds of Sade (her middle namesake) added elegance and depth to her musical palate. Alongside her love for music, Alexandria played the flute and piano while balancing her passion for tennis and actively engaging in the St. Louis City Black community, earning local accolades that pushed her community-building mission forward.
A proud alumna of Hampton University, Alexandria discovered vinyl collecting and music production during college. Rather than pursuing a career aligned with her Biology degree, she embraced her creative aspirations, becoming a signed model in Los Angeles before founding Black Girls Love Vinyl (BGLV) in 2018. Inspired by showcasing her collection around LA and seeking a community of Black women who shared her passion for preserving music on vinyl, she built BGLV into a space for discovery, connection, storytelling, and cultural preservation.
Through her work with BGLV, Alexandria deepened her experience in the music industry, gaining expertise in the roles of marketing, sync licensing, operations, and currently in the field of music supervision.
With a vision to expand BGLV into a thriving global collective, she is committed to building an archive of cultural legacy piece by piece, creating a space where Black women can connect through stories of music discovery and our Black heritage within the art of vinyl records and beyond.