Blythe Pepino

Blythe Constance Rose Pepino (born 12 March 1986) and attended St Mary's Roman Catholic High School, Lugwardine and Hereford Sixth Form College, the latter between 2002 and 2004. She and Aaron Zahl formed BiZali in autumn 2003 after being asked to sing at his brother's wedding; by November 2006, the pair had enrolled at the University of Bristol and recruited two further members. BiZali had released the album Dance Yourself Alone by November 2009; reviewing for Sound on Sound, Joe Inglis felt that there was "more than a touch of the Beth Gibbons" about Pepino, who "rarely turn[ed] the intensity dial down below 10". The quartet subsequently formed the quintet Mesadorm and released the albums Heterogaster in 2018 and Epicadus in 2019.

Pepino formed Vaults in 2013 with Barney Freeman and Ben Vella They released the track "One Last Night", which appeared on the soundtrack to Fifty Shades of Grey, and the track "One Day I'll Fly Away", which soundtracked the 2016 John Lewis Christmas advert. art-pop, and electronica. and the album Caught in Still Life (2016); they split in May 2017.

In 2015, after taking offense at posters by Protein World featuring a woman in a bikini asking "Are you beach body ready?", Pepino mounted the #eachbodysready vandalism campaign against the adverts. She travelled with The Brighton Shelter Build Project to the Calais Jungle in January 2016; while there, she helped erect 13 flat-pack shelters, which each housed up to six refugees and survived until the camp was cleared in October. That year, she was interviewed by The Independent about her polyamorous lifestyle; at the time, she was in relationships with her partner, another couple, and another woman. She was two years into a different relationship in March 2019. The following March, she co-founded BirthStrike and appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to explain herself. Group members vowed "not to bear children due to the severity of the ecological crisis and the current inaction of governing forces in the face if this existential threat". Pepino has stated that her intention was to use her social privilege as a middle class white woman to affect change quickly After burning out and disbanding BirthStrike in summer 2021, she released a solo recording in 2024 with Sonny Fodera's "Mind Still", which peaked at No. 68 on the UK singles chart.