Custer LaRue is an American soprano vocalist[1] of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
LaRue is from Bath County, Virginia,[2] and attended Mary Baldwin College and the Peabody Conservatory, where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1979.
[3] She served as the lead singer for The Baltimore Consort[1] between 1983 and 2004, and has also worked as a solo artist with ad hoc groups of supporting musicians, with recordings released on the Dorian label.
In the movie Hunters Moon (1997) LaRue sings "Soldier Boy", a folk song, slightly changed, from the southern Appalachians.
In the 2004 film Vanity Fair, LaRue's singing was used to voice-over Reese Witherspoon's three songs "Over The Mountains/The Great Adventurer", "Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal", and "The Mermaids Song".