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Jett Williams (born January 6, 1953) is an American country music performer.
Jett is the illegitimate daugther of Hank Williams, Sr., the product of a brief relationship between him and a woman named Bobbie Jett which occurred between his two marriages. Jett learned of this status at an early age, but was forced to go to extreme lengths to prove the relationship and be recognized as Williams' daughter, despite a very strong physical resemblance to her father. She was reportedly very slow to be accepted as kin by her half-brother, Hank Williams, Jr..
Jett has also been slow to be recognized for having considerable musical talent in her own right; she has never become one of the top-tier country entertainers. Detractors suggest that she would have never been heard of if not for her famous father while her supporters say that her drive to claim her legacy may well have hurt her career in other ways and that she would have been able to make a good living, perhaps a better one, based on her talent alone.
Jett Williams is a posthumous child; her birth occurred five days after her father's still-controversial death.
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