
A Bangladeshi folk singer. He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1975 for playback in Sujan Sakhi. He was posthumously awarded the Ekushey Padak in 1977 and the Independence Day Award in 1997 by the government of Bangladesh.
The well-known folk singer Abdul Alim was born on 27 July 1931 in Sunderpara, Talibpur village, Kandi subdivision, Murshidabad district, West Bengal. Sundarpara is currently under Salar police station in Kandi subdivision. However, at the time of Abdul Alim's birth, the neighborhood belonged to Bharatpur police station. Abdul Alim was born in extreme financial hardship. Neighbors and relatives were happy but his father could not be very happy due to financial strain. However, his mother, Khasa Bibi, took Abdul Alim's birth as a symbol of family progress. The mother thought that this boy was Paymant. By this one day this family's lack will be removed.
Abdul Alim's father's name is Mohammad Isab Sheikh (Yusuf Sheikh). He depended on the small agricultural land he got from his forefather to support the family. Isab Sheikh and Khasa Bibi were the parents of five sons and one daughter. Abdul Alim was the youngest of five sons.






Abdul Alim did not progress far in formal education. He attended the local Talibpur High School till class V. Amar Shaheed of language movement Abul Barkat II (1927-1952) was a classmate of Abdul Alim in that school. Although Abdul Alim did not pursue academic studies, he was apprenticed to Ustad Ghulam Ali in Murshidabad and focused on music education. Later he moved to Kolkata and in Shere Bangla. K. He got close to Fazlul Haque, Kazi Nazrul Islam and others. He studied music in Kolkata and Dhaka under Ustad Mohammad Hossain Khosru, Kanai Lal Sheel, Abdul Halim Chowdhury, Momtaz Ali Khan, Bedar Uddin Ahmad, Abdul Latif, Osman Khan, Hasan Ali Khan, Shamser Ali and others. Although educated by many, Abdul Alim was actually a caste artist.
A rare video of Abdul Alim singing his own song
The well-known folk singer Abdul Alim was born on 27 July 1931 in Sunderpara, Talibpur village, Kandi subdivision, Murshidabad district, West Bengal. Sundarpara is currently under Salar police station in Kandi subdivision. However, at the time of Abdul Alim's birth, the neighborhood belonged to Bharatpur police station. Abdul Alim was born in extreme financial hardship. Neighbors and relatives were happy but his father could not be very happy due to financial strain. However, his mother, Khasa Bibi, took Abdul Alim's birth as a symbol of family progress. The mother thought that this boy was Paymant. By this one day this family's lack will be removed.
Abdul Alim's father's name is Mohammad Isab Sheikh (Yusuf Sheikh). He depended on the small agricultural land he got from his forefather to support the family. Isab Sheikh and Khasa Bibi were the parents of five sons and one daughter. Abdul Alim was the youngest of five sons.




The well-known folk singer Abdul Alim was born on 27 July 1931 in Sunderpara, Talibpur village, Kandi subdivision, Murshidabad district, West Bengal. Sundarpara is currently under Salar police station in Kandi subdivision. However, at the time of Abdul Alim's birth, the neighborhood belonged to Bharatpur police station. Abdul Alim was born in extreme financial hardship. Neighbors and relatives were happy but his father could not be very happy due to financial strain. However, his mother, Khasa Bibi, took Abdul Alim's birth as a symbol of family progress. The mother thought that this boy was Paymant. By this one day this family's lack will be removed.
Abdul Alim's father's name is Mohammad Isab Sheikh (Yusuf Sheikh). He depended on the small agricultural land he got from his forefather to support the family. Isab Sheikh and Khasa Bibi were the parents of five sons and one daughter. Abdul Alim was the youngest of five sons.






