(CNN) American businessman Jason Spindler survived the September 11 attacks in New York only to die this week in another act of terror.

He would have turned 41 next week, his parents told CNN affiliate KTRK

Men armed with guns and explosives burst into Nairobi's DusitD2 compound, killing at least 21 people in an attack that lasted hours and ended Wednesday morning, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said.

DusitD2 is an upmarket cluster of shops and hotel facilities in the Kenyan capital, his company said.

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Blair is just as engaging and unpredictable in conversation as on record. During a freewheeling Skype session last month, she tumbled through her life story and the genesis of Ballet School’s timely yet unique sound. Even in the face of difficult circumstances — Blair called from Belfast, where she’s been tending to her father after a stroke — she was as ebullient as her music suggests.

STEREOGUM: How long have you been staying at your dad’s place?

ROSIE BLAIR: He had a stroke a couple of weeks ago. So I just moved home to take care of him, because my family is sort of just me and my dad and then my brother, but my brother lives in Australia, and he has a baby on the way with his