His father was Don Miguel Lopez Romualdez, the Mayor of Manila during World War 2 who was known to ride his chauffeur-driven American car in the streets honking at the Japanese soldiers and Korean stevedores who would immediately part away like Moses splitting the Red Sea.
Danieling's father was the second of the three sons of Trinidad "Tidad" Lopez, eldest daughter of Spanish friar, Don Francisco Lopez of Granada, Spain (later of Burauen, Leyte), and Daniel Romualdez of Pandacan, Manila, a tuberculosis survivor and Cabeza de Barangay.