Since its release in mid-April, “Me, I Can’t” has been circulating on the Internet, creating a real trend on social networks. A title that Junior BSG, its author, composer and performer, fully assumes, he who, at the same time… is a professional basketball player in Belgium! For you, Plus Que Sportifs looked into this phenomenon, which is as viral as it is unprecedented.
“We are Christians, so we talk about Jesus… Get angry as you want, no, we won’t stop!”
More than ever, the chorus with its committed lyrics sweeps like a swirling wind of freshness! In the middle of a clip where infectious joy and good humor reign, the lyrics say everything about their author: “I am in a dynamic of making songs where we can proclaim without shame our love of Jesus”, assures us Junior Bonsenge. “Since I started composing, I’m not afraid to get wet and I want to avoid making songs where we only talk about the Christian faith on the surface,” he adds.
With a dual gospel and afro style linked to modern worship, the 22-year-old young man manages to touch us while making us dance. A trademark of his own, he whose musical career took off two years ago with the release of a first album, Une jeunesse pour Jésus (2024).
However, summarizing Junior to his sense of rhythm would be simplistic as the latter, always smiling, has other innate talents. Thus, in parallel with music, he has another great passion that the video for his latest single suggests with a few quick snippets: basketball.
This sport is Junior’s other strong point, whose career began at Royal IV Brussels, his training club, before continuing at Brussels Basketball, a professional club in the BNXT League which currently offers him a chance to express himself at the highest level:
“Even if music comes first in my heart, basketball has also been part of my life since I was little. It’s not always easy to combine the two, because they are two activities that take time. But I try to honor God in everything he gives me to experience.”
If, in two years, the fullback has not yet established himself in the main rotation of his team, his first appearances in the professional group were an opportunity for him to break the screen in another register, as during his meeting against BAL on April 16, the day of the release of the clip “Me, I can’t”! That evening, he notably scored ten points in twenty minutes, more than remarkable stats for the young rookie that he still is.
But that’s not all: last Sunday, a few hours after attending worship in his evangelical Vase d’Honneur church in Brussels, the same place where he was baptized four years ago, he came off the bench to participate in his team’s victory against LWD Basket (93-76).
With two matches remaining at the end of the regular season, which will close at home for him this Wednesday with a prestigious match in the magnificent ING Arena in the Belgian capital, his team is more than ever in the running for the play-offs:
“At the moment, it’s a bit of a rush, and there isn’t a day when I don’t have something to do: training, matches, music… Not forgetting the youth group ‘A Chosen Generation’, of which I am responsible and which is represented by the dancers in the clip!”
Regardless of the calendar constraints, the young man accumulates the blessings which he relates even in the lyrics of his songs: “I am a child of God, therefore I am blessed”, he proclaims in My Jesus eehwords that he partly uses in his latest single.
“From my mother’s womb, he chose me.”
A speech that Junior always relays with humility and simplicity of heart, even though he has just crossed the 100,000 follower mark on social networks, with content liked and commented on by several high-level athletes from different sports, like the football player and captain of OL Lyonnes Wendie Renard last week.
“I admit that I didn’t expect such an echo!”, he concludes before saying:
“If, through it all, people could grasp the gift of grace and be touched by it as I once was…
Without a ball or microphone in hand, his greatest victory would undoubtedly be there!
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