Melody Licious is the former stage name of

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born Melody Baetens, a staff writer for ''

The Detroit News ''The Detroit News'' is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival ''Detroit Free Press'' building. ''The News'' absorbed the '' Detroit Tribune'' on Februa ...

'' since 1999. She was a member of Detroit rock bands

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(1999–2000) and Gore Gore Girls (2000–2003). She has also been with Detroit

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the Sirens since 2001, and has appeared on all of the band's releases, plus a 2005

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tour and a 2006 tour of

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. Melody toured

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with the Coronados in 2004. She's currently the bassist for Betty Cooper. She was the co-host of local music show "Detroit Local 101" on Riff2. An

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side channel of WRIF, Riff2 won a

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award in 2007. In January 2009, Melody became a co-owner of Small's Bar in

Hamtramck, MI Hamtramck ( ) is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 28,433. Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion that borders the fellow enclave city of Hi ...

. In 2019, Baetens was named The Detroit News' restaurant critic.

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