Byrta stylized as BYRTA is a Faroese musical electro-pop duo made up of singer/songwriter Guðrið Hansdóttir and musician Janus Rasmussen. They are mostly inspired by 1980s pop music.Hansdóttir was already a well-established solo singer well known in Iceland while musician Janus Rasmussen had for some years now been a member of the Icelandic/Faroese electro band Bloodgroup.In 2012 they met in Reykjavík, and they found out that they had something in common, they started to play music together.