Fresia Raquel Saavedra Gómez (8 September 1933 – 18 July 2024) was an Ecuadorian teacher and singer-songwriter.

[1] In UNESCO's representative list of pasillo singing, it includes a video of a lesson by Saavedra.

[4] She wrote campaign songs for several, including Abdalá Bucaram, Sixto Durán Ballén and José María Velasco Ibarra.

She had retired from teaching in school, but she was still helping aspiring singers at the Escuela del Pasillo, which is part of the Julio Jaramillo Music Museum.

[3] In August 2015 her career was recognised when she was given a medal by Ecuador's Ministry of Culture together with Guillermo Rodríguez.

[5] In 2018 she and her daughter sang at the Museum de Pasillo in Quito, where people had gathered to recognise the 87-year-old singer Héctor Jaramillo [es].