What kind of dancer was Bruno Mars's mother when his parents met?

Bruno Mars’s mother was a hula dancer when his parents met.

His parents met while performing in a show in Hawaii: his mother, Bernadette San Pedro Bayot, was a hula dancer, and his father, Peter Hernandez, was a percussionist. Their shared performance background helped create the musical environment in which Mars was raised.

Bayot was also a singer and dancer, while Hernandez performed Little Richard’s music and worked as a percussionist. Mars’s early exposure to live entertainment began at home and onstage. At age four, he started performing with the family band, the Love Notes, which played regularly in Honolulu.

The detail is sometimes blurred because hula is both a dance tradition and a broader cultural art form, while Mars’s mother is also described generally as a singer and dancer. The specific answer to the question about what she was doing when she met his father is hula dancing.