Sikandar was born on 27th July 1939 at Routrapur of Baialishi Mouzaa in Cuttack district. Born in a wealthy Muslim family, his father Md. Sayeed Alam was an IPS officer and mother Sahara Khatun a house wife. Sikandar had spent his early childhood at his village, and then he re-located at Cuttack with his parents and finished his Matriculation from Christ Collegiate School. After completion of his Intermediate in Science from Stewart College, Cuttack, Alam joined the famous Ghandharva Mahavidyalaya as a student of Hindustani Classical Music (vocal) and awarded Sangeet Visharad under the tutelage of Pandit Govind Chandra Palushkar and Ustad Kundala Adinarayan Rao.

Sikandar married to Naima who, her self is a trained singer and approved AIR artist and blessed with two very gifted daughters Sofia (one of the most celebrity cine artists of oDishA) and Nazia (a promising classical singer).

In addition to this he was a Govt. Servant and retired as Film Officer in Directorate of Agriculture and Food Production, Govt of OdishA.