Melody Licious is the former stage name of Detroit born Melody Baetens, a staff writer for The Detroit News since 1999.
Melody toured South America with the Coronados in 2004.
An HD Radio side channel of WRIF, Riff2 won a National Association of Broadcasters award in 2007.
[2] In January 2009, Melody became a co-owner of Small's Bar in Hamtramck, MI.
[3] In 2019, Baetens was named The Detroit News' restaurant critic.