Let's make this birthday one to remember.

50 years old (Born on July 23, 1974)

Happy Birthday, Donald Vega! May your special day have more rhythm than your best jazz performances and fewer missed notes than our attempts to sing along. From Nicaragua's proudest export to Down Beat’s celebrated 2007 Jazz Student Soloist—your magical fingers keep reminding us mere mortals what mastery sounds like.

Keep dazzling audiences worldwide; it's unfair you got all the talent while we barely manage karaoke night! Here's wishing another incredible year ahead filled with stellar compositions, electrifying solos, standing ovations—and perhaps finally teaching friends how not to butcher "Happy Birthday." Keep swinging gently into greatness—you’re timelessly cool!