His family, which belonged to the Zogoy teip, had been relocated as a result of the forced deportations of most Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia on February 23, 1944.

His father, Vakharbi, was born in 1926 in the village of Bonay-Aul, located in the Aukhovsky District of central Dagestan, bordering Chechnya.

He studied illi, a traditional Chechen genre, the main components of which are recitatives, legends, and tales about heroes accompanied by a three-stringed instrument called the phandar.

Some of his most popular songs include "Gazavat", "Dagestan", "Joƶalla ya marşo" (Anthem of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria), and "Gunib".

[1] With the start of the First Chechen War in December 1994, Alimsultanov was briefly detained after a performance and sent to a Russian filtration camp in Khankala.

After returning to Chechnya, Alimsultanov helped to secure the release of 25 Ukrainian builders from Kirovohrad who were being held hostage.

Аn investigation by Chechen special services[citation needed] implicated the Russian FSB for the murder.