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Margarita González (1 September 1918, Chihuahua – 29 May 2006, Cuernavaca) was a Mexican-born classically trained singer, who sand in the soprano, mezzo-soprano and contralto fachs. She combined a bel canto technique with interpretation in French, Russian Spanish, Italian, German and Nahuatl. She was the first singer to sing in Nahuatl language in such exclusive places as the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall and La Scala in Milan. An extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto music of Salvador Moreno Manzano, and Carlos Jiménez Mabarak; further, to the works of Blas Galindo, Manuel Ponce and Tata Nacho. In her career she took challenges as to sing many Mexican pieces of Sonido 13 (thirteenth sound), a microtonal system invented by Julián Carrillo in 1925. She possessed a remarkable vocal range that allowed her to sing in microtonal quarter tones, eights and sixteens.