Alamgir, the " Elvis of the East " who has mesmerised audiences in 

numerous capitals of the world, is in fact, a very soft spoken person 

in real life. His voice which has a soothing and caressing effect on 

the listener, reveals his unassuming personality. He is a complete 

natural and quite at ease in the presence of strangers. Yet, there is 

that hint of bashfulness which adds to his charm.

His greatest asset is his deep, rich, nostalgic voice, having a 

timbre which differs from the voices of almost every known vocalist. 

To name a few of his hit songs: Dekha na tha kabhi humne ye 

sama, Ye shaam aur tera naam, Maene tomhari gagarse pani 

peeya tha, Shamsay pehele aana and Mujhay dilsay na bhoolana.

Alamgir was born and brought up in the neighborhood of 

Shantinagar in Dhaka. He recieved his schooling in Little Flower 

School, followed by Shaheen School and then the Mirzapur Cadet 

College in Mymensingh. After the death of his politician father who 

had been a contemporary of the late Hussain Shaheed 

Suhrawardy, most of his ten siblings began to migrate to Canada 

and the United States. In 1973, Alamgir went to live with his aunt in 

Karachi in Pakistan and enrolled for higher studies there while 

awaiting his turn for emigration to North America.

He concedes that during his student days music dominated his life. 

While singing for local pop bands, he began to be noticed and a 

performance on Karachi Television in 1973 at the age of 15, 

earned him instant fame and launched him on the road to stardom. 

He attributes his success partially to his performance on stage, 

admitting that his body movements which has always been 

spontaneous and in natural response to the rhythm, appealed to 

the younger Pakistani audience who hitherto been treated to more 

sedate and stoical performances. he takes the visual presentation 

of a vocal rendition very seriously, and often includes theatrical 

costumes and choreography, especially  when singing folklores. 

He has sung about 400 songs for Television alone. He has sung 

not many for the film, even though he has received the highest film 

award in Pakistan called the Nigar Award, along with Mehdi 

Hassan and Noor Jehan in 1978 for the best singer that year for 

the song "Mujhe Dilsay Na Bhulana" ( film " Aina" ).

He strives to imbibe his rendering with tonal subtleties and 

emotional expansiveness which add depth and meaning to the 

text and the inherent meaning of the approach of the poet. He is 

one of Pakistan's legends who introduced pop music to Pakistan, a 

galvanic mixture of body and soul. He is the singer who sets the 

beat for a decade. A dancer with the fanciest feet on stage. His 

numbers, which are incredible are also becoming indelible. He 

has a fresh original sound. The music is either energetic or 

sensual. You can dance to it, work out to it, relax to it, sing to it. Its 

hard to sit still to. The singer who has an uncanny sense of what 

his audience wants and how to go about the hard and profitable 

business of giving it to them. Singing and dancing at the same time 

is a very difficult act, but Alamgir being a born dedicated artist 

became the first singer in Pakistan to have started it. It is he who 

has introduced the modern or pop music to Pakistan.

 As a child his only influence to music was Elvis Presley. The very 

first song that he ever uttered to sing a song was at the age of 10, 

and that was Elvis's song " His Latest Flame ". As a toddler he 

once got so attracted to a Hemanta Mukherjee's record his father 

was listening, that he crawled to the gramophone and ripped off 

the mesh covering the speaker in an effort to locate the source of 

the melodious voice. As he was growing older so was his number 

of influences. Legends like Abbasuddin, who was his father's 

favorite singer, Hemanta Mukherjee, Beatles, Rolling Stones, 

Englebert Humperdink, Ustad Amir Khan, Ustad Salamat Ali, 

Roshan Ara Begum, Mozzart, Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar, 

Mannade, Simon and Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Mehdi Hassan and 

Elton John were among his influences.

Todays pop music, Alamgir ruefully admits, is mostly trash. He 

strongly feels that music should be soothing, instead of ear drum 

blasting form that it acquired. To him, the melody and the lyrics of a 

song are of immense importance.In recent years, he has taken to 

ghazals for which he is doing reaz (practicing classical ragas).  

With his ear for languages, Alamgir has sung in many languages. 

He counts North Korea's President Late Kim Ill Sung among his 

fans. He has already performed there five times and was awarded 

pride of performance of rendition of a song in Korean. He has 

travelled and performed in 45 countries around the world.

In the last 25 years of his fame, he has released about 30 albums. 

20 plus in Pakistan and about 5 in Bangladesh.

He is now well settled in Georgia, U.S.A. These days he is 

performing in many of the cities in U.S.A and Canada and once in 

a while long tours of Europe, Africa, Middle East and the Indian 

Sub Continent. He has his own computerized studio where he 

records his own album keeps doing his musical research, making 

new music, etc.