Ayta Sözeri (born 31 March 1976) is a Turkish actress, singer and LGBT activist.

[1][2] Sözeri was born on 31 March 1976 in West Germany.

[4] Her family settled in İzmir in 1982 and she underwent sex reassignment surgery at the age of 20.

[5][6] She graduated from the Ege University Business Administration Department[7] and took Turkish classical music at Dokuz Eylül University.

Later she started performing as a backing vocalist for a number of artists, including Sezen Aksu.