Mezzo-soprano and singing teacher of Armenian origin.

She was born on January 24 of 1874 in Tbilisi, she was the sister of Susanik Laloy-Babaïan, a pianist and harpsichordist, married to the French musicologist Louis Laloy.

She started her musical studies at the Conservatory of Tbilisi and continued them in Dresden, under the guidance of the pianist Hermann Scholtz. She focused on learning singing at the Conservatory of Tbilisi and later on moved to Paris. Being there she kept correspondence with Manuel de Falla, since 1914, and with whom she had a great friendship.

She performed as a singer in concerts of Armenian, Russian, French, and Italian music in the major French and Swiss cities, as well as in London. In 1907, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, she performed with her sister in a recital of Armenian, Russian, Greek, and French folk songs and dances. Babaïan created a singing course in Paris, sponsored by great French teachers, and among her Armenian students some worth mentioning were Moughounian, Chah Mouradian, and Miss Kavanoz and Miss Berberian.

She was valued for her extreme sensitivity, especially for the feeling of oriental, sweet, and evocative melancholy in her vocal performances. She wrote a theory work on singing, titled L'Enseignement du chant. Month exercises (1936). She died on October 17 of 1968 in Paris.

El Museo de Literatura y Artes Yeghishe Charents en Ereván (Armenia) conserva correspondencia de Marguerite Babaïan con el compositor armenio Komitas Vardapet y con músicos europeos como Maurice Ravel, Paul Debussy, Pauline Viardot, Éduard Lalo y Paul Dukas, entre otras conocidas figuras.