Margarita Laso (born 20 July 1963), is an Ecuadorian singer, writer and producer.

Laso began her musical training listening to her father sing tangos and tunes, boleros and songs from Ecuador.

In 1989, she performed her first stage production as a soloist and since then she has given recitals, shows and recordings throughout Ecuador with a repertoire that includes boleros, traditional Latin American and Ecuadorian music, carols and tangos.

With several awards throughout her professional career, she has directed her work to the growth of local and national artistic activity and the expansion of Ecuadorian and Latin American music.

In 1997,[4] she won the Jorge Carrera Andrade Award for her book The Line of Cobras.