Held a Master's Degree in music from Louisiana State University.
He has Spanish, French and Chitimacha Indian roots.
He was awarded the 1995 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Black Elk Speaks," in a Denver Center Theatre Company production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
He started as an Opera singer.
Sang in five languages and was fluent in Spanish and French.
Back in the era of "park & bark" opera singers, the young Ned Romero
was a fine actor and powerful baritone on the operatic stage, notably
as a blood-chilling, villainous "Baron Scarpia" in Giacomo Puccini's
"Tosca".
Romero is buried in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California. ( Section CG / Row E / Site 74 ).