Performed by: Kirsten & Søren
Music by: Søren Bundgaard
Lyrics by: Keld Heick
Conductor: Henrik Krogsgaard
Language: Danish
Placing: 3rd (92 points)
Other versions: English, French, German

"Ka' du se hva' jeg sa'?" ("Can you see, (that's) what I told you?", literally: "Do you see what I said?") was the Danish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, performed in Danish by Kirsten & Søren (a duo who had previously entered as Hot Eyes).

The song was performed thirteenth on the night, following Austria's Wilfried with "Lisa Mona Lisa" and preceding Greece's Afroditi Frida with "Clown". At the close of voting, it had received 92 points, placing 3rd in a field of 21.

The song describes a particularly difficult personality type — who "knows everything for certain" and "whistles if it turns out you're at fault". Over the course of the song, this person is gradually revealed to be the person to whom the song is being sung in the first place.

The performance is perhaps more memorable for the fact that the female half of the duo (Kirsten Siggard) was heavily pregnant at the time and would give birth only three weeks after the contest.

Here's the German version: "Hab ich's dir nicht gesagt?"

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And in English: "Who is wrong and who is right?"

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1988 brought though was lucky for Hot Eyes, when their entry, "Ka' du se, hva' jeg sa'?" won the Dansk MGP again, making them record three-time winners of the contest (Tommy Seebach equalled this record in 1993). At the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 (where they were actually billed as Kirsten & Søren), they also placed very favorably, coming third, which was Denmark's best placing in twenty five years. Kirsten was pregnant again (with her second son), but this time much more visibly - she gave birth only three weeks after the performance.

Even though the duo did not split officially until 1991, they did not record together after 1988. In 1989, Søren and Keld Heick wrote another song for the Dansk MGP together, but this time for Birthe Kjær, winning the contest again. They both appeared on stage as backing singers for Birthe, along with Lei and Lupe Moe, who supported no fewer than ten Danish ESC entries from 1981 to 2002. "Vi maler byen rød" came third again at the Eurovision. Søren also tried his luck as composer in the 1993 and 1999 Dansk MGP, but did not win, and currently runs a recording company called "SB Studio" in Aalborg.

Kirsten entered the Dansk MGP again in 1990 with "Inden Længe" by another composer and different in style, but failed to secure another ticket to Eurovision. The phone number viewers were using to vote for this song was later revealed to have had technical problems, though it was too late to do anything about it. In 1992, she formed a trio named "Swing Sisters" with opera singer Kirsten Vaupel and actor Lise-Lotte Norup, with whom she toured Denmark and several other European countries. She also performed with Søren on several special occasions later, reprising some of the Hot Eyes hits.

Kirsten's solo career has gone from strength to strength. Famous in Denmark for her award-winning portrayal of Édith Piaf in 1991. A new tour has been launched in January 2014 of a musical play called Spurven (the sparrow). The play focuses on the last 5 years of Piaf's life and starts at the time of the car crash that Piaf was involved in.

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