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.

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.

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 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" ).

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