He is known as the Salabeg (the greatest Muslim Devotee of Lord Jagannath) of the modern days because, Salabeg’s lyrics on lord Jagannath has never been sung better other than Sikandar Alam. With more than 40 oDiA films, countless private album songs including Jagannath bhajans and Hindi ghajals, Md. Sikandar Alam is a living legend if oDiA music industry.

He started performing for AIR at the age of 18,and a versatile supremely talented singer, who could manage to sing romantic songs with equal intensity as bhajans, even today, at the age of 69. He is also credited as the first oDiA singer to be heard on BBC London ( Just before Rangabati became the most heard song on BBC LONDON ) .

Visit Sikandar Alam’s house at Bhubaneswar one day and you will be a witness to one of the great spectacles of composite cultures. This great master says his Namaaz five times a day but all the walls of his Drawing Hall is adorned by photographs of Hindu Deities. He himself is a proud example of National Integrity of oDishA.